Overview

Russell Morse is a Principal in Meyers Nave’s Land Use, Environmental Law, and Real Estate Practice Groups. His practice focuses on real estate transactions, land use entitlement, and environmental review permitting.

Russell negotiates, prepares, and reviews acquisition and disposition agreements for public entities and private investors, lease documents (including ground leases), and licenses, tailoring his advice to the nuances of the particular client and deal.

He also advises clients and litigates complex matters involving local planning, zoning, historic preservation, and cultural resources regulations, as well as state and federal land use and environmental laws, including the California Environmental Quality Act Surplus Land Act, and the Subdivision Map Act.

Russell has represented clients in many large and controversial residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use land use and development projects in California, and has helped shepherd a vast scope of smaller projects through the matrix of entitlement laws. His comprehensive expertise covers all phases of development projects, including initial planning and zoning review, real estate acquisition and disposition, public entity review and approval, and CEQA-related litigation defense.