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About Geoffrey
Biography
Geoff Robinson's practice focuses on land use, development, and real estate litigation. He represents clients in civil and administrative proceedings involving planning and zoning laws, CEQA, development fees and exactions and public facilities financing. He is an authority on writs of mandate in the trial court and is co-author of the treatise California Administrative Mandamus (CEB, 3rd Ed. 2007) and other publications on civil writ practice. He also has substantial experience in the area of development exactions and has litigated numerous cases involving challenges to development exactions, mitigation requirements, and public financing districts. He continues to handle a broad range of litigation and transactional matters, including a groundwater basin rights adjudication, an action to enforce state housing element laws, a Voting Rights Act case, and a challenge to a wastewater treatment plant expansion.
Geoff has been an active participant in the firm’s pro bono program, representing individuals, non-profits and public agencies before state and federal courts, including several matters in the California Supreme Court. He is the recipient of the firm’s first John J. Curtin Public Service Award and the California State Bar’s President’s Pro Bono Award.
Geoff served as law clerk to Judge Thomas J. MacBride of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and as extern to Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Geoff is currently the chair of the Language Access Committee of the California Commission on Access to Justice, the managing partner of Bingham’s Walnut Creek office and a reserve JAG officer.
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Licensed in California for 42 years
State: California
Acquired: 1983
No misconduct found
Location
BINGHAM
1333 North California Boulevard, Walnut Creek, CA, 94596
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Experience
Honors
2023
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2022
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2021
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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2011
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2010
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2009
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2008
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2008
Super Lawyer, Law & Politics Magazine
2008
Best Lawyers in America, N/A
2007
The Best Lawyers in America, N/A
2007
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2007
Super Lawyer, Law & Politics Magazine
2006
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2006
John J. Curtin Public Service Award, Bingham McCutchen LLP
2006
Super Lawyer,
2005
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2005
Super Lawyer,
2004
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2004
Super Lawyer,
1996
Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood - Shasta Diablo
1996
President's Pro Bono Award,
Work Experience
1986 - Present
Partner, BINGHAM
1984 - 1986
Associate, Bronson Bronson & McKinnon
1983 - 1984
Extern for Honorable Thomas J. MacBridge, U.S. District Court
1982 - 1983
Extern for Honorable Joseph T. Sneed, U.S. Court of Appeals
Associations
2008 - Present
Public Interest ClearinghouseDirector
2000 - Present
Language Access Committee; Calif. Comm. on Access to JusticeChair
1990 - Present
Contra Costa Senior Legal ServicesDirector
2002 - 2004
California Commission on Access to JusticeCo-chair
Education
1983
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
JD - Juris Doctor
1980
University of Virginia School of Law
1978
University of California - Berkeley
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Speaking Engagements
2006
Unknown
Land Development Law: Strategies for Entitling Complex Development Projects
2000
UC Berkeley Extension
Planning Law and Legal Process
1998
State Bar of California Section Education Institute
Writs of Mandate in the Trial Court
1993
UC Davis Extension
Writs of Mandamus in Land Use and Environmental Law
Publications
2007
CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar)
California Administrative Mandamus
2007
Curtin's California Land Use and Planning Law
Land Use Litigation
2005
Language Barriers to Justice in California
A Report of the California Commission on Access to Justice
2000
CEB
Meeting Statutory Deadlines, Real Property & Land Use Litigation
Languages
French