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Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP Expands Eminent Domain Practice with Brenda Aguilar-Guerrero

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP is pleased to announce that Brenda Aguilar-Guerrero has joined the firm’s Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation practice group as a partner. Aguilar-Guerrero has represented public entities on complex eminent domain and inverse condemnation matters for more than 25 years and has assisted clients with large, complex multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects requiring hundreds of acquisitions, as well as smaller scale projects throughout California for a variety of clients. Prior to joining Burke, Aguilar-Guerrero served as chair of a statewide eminent domain and inverse condemnation practice group at her prior law firm. She is based in Burke’s Oakland office. Burke managing partner John J. Welsh noted that Aguilar-Guerrero “is a highly accomplished practitioner who will significantly add to the established and steadily increasing role Burke has in eminent domain and inverse condemnation law matters throughout California.”

Aguilar-Guerrero joins a robust bench of Burke Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation attorneys, which includes: Alan A. Sozio (Los Angeles), J. Leah Castella (Oakland), Benjamin L. Stock (Marin County), Kevin D. Siegel (San Francisco), Nicholas J. Muscolino (Oakland), Chad W. Herrington (Orange County), Nora E. Wetzel (San Francisco), Kara L. DiBiasio (San Francisco), Kristen S. Steinke (San Diego), Carrie A. Raven (Inland Empire), Megan A. Burke (Oakland), Stephen A. McEwen (Orange County), Brian A. Pierik (Los Angeles), Joseph P. Buchman (Los Angeles) and Mark J. Mulkerin (Orange County).

Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP is a California limited liability law partnership with 137 member attorneys. Our mission is to provide clients with creative, results oriented, and cost effective legal services within the complex environment in which they function. We view ourselves as problem solvers and legal strategists, not simply compliance monitors and reciters of the law. Burke has nine practice groups: Public Law; Labor and Employment Law; Construction Law; Litigation; Environmental, Land Use and Natural Resources; Real Estate and Business Law; Insurance Coverage and Litigation; Intellectual Property; and Education Law. Each practice focuses on professional development of member attorneys and advisory services tailored to the needs of both public and private clients. With regional offices in the Inland Empire, Palm Desert, Los Angeles, Marin County, Oakland, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Ventura County, as well with the added support of advanced communications technology, Burke can easily be where our California situated clients need us to be. For more information, please visit www.bwslaw.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/burke-williams-&-sorensen/about/?viewAsMember=true

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Mark Garcia • (213) 236-2847 • mgarcia@bwslaw.com

Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP

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CEO: Mark Garcia
Employees: 250
Organization: PRI

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Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP Expands Eminent Domain Practice with Brenda Aguilar-Guerrero
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Mark Garcia • (213) 236-2847 • mgarcia@bwslaw.com

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