Congratulations to Andrea Musicant, named one of the San Diego Business Journal’s 50 Women of Influence in Law for 2026!
This recognition honors 50 deserving leaders representing the breadth of San Diego’s legal community, selected from a competitive nomination pool. We’re proud to celebrate Andrea’s well-earned place on this list — a true reflection of her growth and impact in the legal profession.
Stay Ahead of 2026’s Legal Changes.
Our Labor & Employment Team has you covered with our 2026 Meyers Nave Employment Law Update handout detailing new and evolving laws for Government Entity, Private Sector, and Non-Profit California Employers.
This valuable resource covers the following:
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As we welcome 2026, we are proud to celebrate 40 years of meaningful work with our clients, colleagues, and communities.
Meyers Nave was founded on a simple promise:
to serve our clients with integrity, collaboration, and excellence.
Over the past four decades, our firm—and the clients we are privileged to serve—have grown and evolved. Yet our founding promise continues to guide us, sustained by the trust of our clients, the dedication of our colleagues, and the deep commitment to serving our clients throughout California.
Our values of service, collaboration, and integrity guide everything we do. This holiday season, we are pleased to put those values into action by once again supporting local food banks and community organizations across California in the communities that we serve and call home:
Here’s to the road ahead, and to building an even brighter future together.
Our team of attorneys and staff look forward to serving you in the New Year.
Meyers Nave is recruiting for a full-time Junior Legal Practice Assistant in its Administration Department. This is a nonexempt position reporting to the Director of Administration and is located in the Firm’s West Los Angeles Office.
ABOUT MEYERS NAVE
Meyers Nave has a special reputation in California as a go-to law firm that clients rely on to handle their highest profile, most complicated and often most controversial transactions and litigated matters. Attorneys in the Firm’s five California offices work in multi-disciplinary teams to help public agencies, private businesses and public-private partnerships navigate an extensive range of local, state and federal laws and regulations. The results of our work and the expertise of our attorneys have led to numerous prestigious awards and honors, including Law360’s “California Powerhouse,” The Recorder’s “Giant Slayer” and The Daily Journal’s “Top Defense Result,” as well as many attorneys recognized in Best Lawyers in America and SuperLawyers. We are proud to handle precedent-setting matters for California’s legal community.
ABOUT THE POSITION
The Junior Legal Practice Assistant is responsible for providing administrative support to attorneys on a day-to-day basis. Under the supervision of the Director of Administration, the Junior Legal Practice Assistant works closely with clients, attorneys, and other team members to ensure effective and timely attention to important legal matters. This includes handling discreet functions such as greeting visitors and vendors, overseeing food orders for internal and client-facing events and working closely with the Office Services Lead and Director of Administration to perform a wide variety of clerical and administrative duties, which includes providing a high level of customer service and support, while consistently producing an excellent work product. This is a full-time, on-site position.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The position’s essential functions include but are not limited to the following:
ADMINISTRATIVE
LEGAL
OTHER
Management retains the right to add to or change the functions of this position at any time.
QUALIFICATIONS
The following qualifications are required unless otherwise noted:
Meyers Nave is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any qualified applicant’s race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status or any other category protected by law. Meyers Nave will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the FCO and Fair Chance Act. You do not need to disclose your criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made.
A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this position is $24.00 to $28.00 per hour. Final pay is based on several factors including but not limited to internal equity, office location, market data, and the applicant’s education, work experience, certifications, etc.
Meyers Nave complies with the requirements of all applicable California and federal employment laws, including those protecting disabled individuals. If you have difficulty using our online application system due to a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation, please contact us via email at meyersjobs@meyersnave.com or by phone at (510) 808-2000.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates should click here and submit a cover letter and resume ONLY if you meet the requested criteria.
Notice to Staffing Agencies
Meyers Nave does not automatically authorize staffing agencies to directly solicit candidates on the firm’s behalf. Candidate submissions must not be sent to attorneys or other employees of the firm. Search firms must have prior approval and a written agreement in place before submitting resumes. If you are interested in working with Meyers Nave, please email meyersjobs@meyersnave.com.
ABOUT MEYERS NAVE
Meyers Nave is a robust midsize law firm with five offices throughout California. For 40 years, we have built a reputation as a “go to” law firm to handle high profile and high stakes matters for both public entities and private sector clients.
ABOUT THE POSITION
Our Land Use and Environmental Group works on sophisticated, large-scale development matters involving high-profile public and private projects across California. The team is currently seeking associates with a minimum of 10 years of experience to join our offices in Los Angeles, Oakland, or San Diego.
Qualified candidates must have extensive land use and CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) experience. The ideal candidate will have experience advising clients on complex land use entitlements, regulatory permitting, and environmental review processes. Land use litigation experience is preferred.
Key Qualifications:
This is an exciting opportunity to work with a collaborative team of talented attorneys on cutting-edge development projects that shape California’s communities and infrastructure.
The salary range for this California-based role is $250,000 – $340,000, and represents the firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation will depend upon a number of factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s years of experience, qualifications, skill set and office location. Meyers Nave offers a reasonable billable hours requirement, annual discretionary and billable hours bonuses, competitive health insurance benefits, 401(k) with a partial match and profit-sharing.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates should CLICK HERE and follow the link to apply. Please submit a cover letter, resume, transcript and two substantive writing samples.
Meyers Nave is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any qualified applicant’s race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status or any other category protected by law. Meyers Nave will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring (Ban-the-Box).
Meyers Nave complies with the requirements of all applicable California and federal employment laws, including those protecting disabled individuals. If you have difficulty using our online application system due to a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation, please contact us via email at hiringmanager@meyersnave.com or by phone at (510) 808-2000.
LOS ANGELES – August 19, 2024 – Environmental and land use law firm The Sohagi Law Group announced today that Best Lawyers in America has recognized Managing Partner Margaret Sohagi and Partner Nicole Hoeksma Gordon in the 31st edition of The Best Lawyers in America, and Associate Mark Desrosiers in the fifth edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. The rigorous selection process of Best Lawyers awards “ensures that the 79,116 honorees in The Best Lawyers in America and the 26,916 recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America are leaders in their fields” and “are respected by their colleagues, showcasing them as the most distinguished members of the legal community.”
“As an industry-driven professional recognition, it is the opinion of lawyers themselves that determines our awards,” states the periodical. “We received record-breaking voter participation in this year’s editions. With more engagement from the market, the barrier for recognition is higher and more competitive than ever before. This reflects not only the profession’s commitment to celebrating professional excellence, but also the increasing importance of every voice in shaping the standards of legal distinction.”
For more information, please read the full press release HERE.
LOS ANGELES, CA, September 11, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Nicole Hoeksma Gordon and R. Tyson Sohagi have been recognized by Lawdragon in its “2025’s 500 Leading Litigators in America.” The publication received a record number of submissions and based their selections on original journalistic research and an extensive vetting process.
“These lawyers [on the list] win hundreds of millions, billions even,” states the publisher. “They win rights, or lose them. They win freedom, or lose it for someone. They have the abilities to change businesses and entire industries. It’s an audacious thing a trial lawyer does: to tell a judge, jury or other arbiter, ‘Hear me. Believe me. Rule for my client.’ Bravo to everyone here, and every litigator out there working on their craft and a cause.”
For more information, please read the full press release HERE.
LOS ANGELES – November 13, 2024 – The Sohagi Law Group , now a part of Meyers Nave announced that it has been recognized by Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms® 2025 among the nation’s elite law firms.
“Over the past decade, these awards have cemented their place as one of the most respected, utilized and comprehensive guides to legal excellence, serving as a trusted resource for both clients and legal professionals seeking distinguished representation in a diverse array of practice areas,” states the publisher. “This edition features firms that have not only achieved the highest standards of legal expertise but also have a proven track record of success across a range of complex and dynamic legal issues.”
The Sohagi Law Group’s practice focuses on assisting cities, counties, and other public agencies navigate the legal complexities of land use and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), including infrastructure and green energy, climate change and housing supply. When necessary, it zealously defends lead agencies’ land use approvals and environmental determinations in judicial proceedings, and frequently heads mediation teams in settlement discussions.
For 2025, The Sohagi Law Group has been nationally ranked “Tier 1” in land use and zoning law.
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Season’s Greetings from all of us at Meyers Nave – in Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego.
As we reflect on another year coming to a close, and look forward to a New Year filled with promise, we are grateful for our incredible clients and our dedicated colleagues.
In the Spirit of Giving, we are proud to continue our support of local food banks and community organizations across California in the communities that we serve and call home:
We look forward to serving you in 2025. Have a joyful holiday season and a prosperous New Year!
Warmest wishes from all of us at Meyers Nave. Our team of attorneys and staff are always available should you need us.
The cannabis industry in California has always operated in an area of legal uncertainty. Although California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana, cannabis has always remained federally illegal as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act. This has led to a situation where for over more than two decades, canna-businesses operating in California have been operating under the cloud of federal illegality. This impacts the ability of canna-businesses to operate freely, due to banking restrictions, the uncertainty of regulations, and the risk of federal enforcement.
The DEA is currently in the process of rescheduling cannabis to Schedule 3 from Schedule 1 under the Controlled Substances Act. The DEA will hold a hearing on December 2, 2024 on the attorney general’s proposal to loosen restrictions on marijuana. The hearing comes after the period for public comment on the Biden administration’s proposal to reclassify marijuana came to a close, soliciting over 40,000 comments from an array of stakeholders.
The rescheduling of cannabis would impact the regulatory landscape in California, but not as drastically as some would think. Foreseeable changes include:
The last Trump administration had a generally hands-off approach towards cannabis regulation, particularly in states that had legalized it. Initially, Attorney General Jeff Sessions took a hardline stance against cannabis, expressed a desire to enforce federal cannabis laws more strictly, and rescinded the Cole Memo, which had provided guidance to states on legal cannabis. Sessions’ tenure was short, however, and as the administration progressed, there was a more lenient approach, particularly concerning states that had legalized cannabis. The Trump administration did not introduce significant federal legislation to change cannabis regulations, leaving much of the regulatory landscape to the states.
The likely outcome with a new Trump administration is that states would still retain the authority to regulate cannabis as they see fit, meaning California could continue to enforce its own regulations while benefiting from the reduced federal constraints. This means that cannabis operators would still need to undergo the same procedures that are in place now. Namely, 1) obtaining local approvals from your local jurisdiction, and 2) obtaining state approvals.
The cannabis industry in California will continue to grow, and with it, will disputes arising out of cannabis businesses. These include everything from fights with localities regarding permitting/entitlement issues, to business disputes among partners in the cannabis space, to clashes among neighboring property owners regarding land use and real property issues. When such disputes arise, our team is here to help you navigate and assess how they may affect your business. For more questions or for more information, please contact us.
