James Vaughn

Jim focuses on real estate, land use and litigation. He represents large companies and high net worth individuals with complex real estate development projects, including due diligence investigations, land acquisitions and dispositions, entitlements, annexations, development agreements, and other public agency infrastructure/service agreements, as well as agreements with Native American Indian tribes. Jim also has extensive experience in all facets of real estate litigation, including CEQA lawsuits, land use and zoning litigation, quiet title actions, contract disputes, easement litigation, nuisance actions, and landlord-tenant disputes. He has successfully litigated, arbitrated and mediated all types of business controversies, including corporation and partnership management disputes and dissolution actions, as well as unfair competition, trade secret, fraud, defamation, breach of contract and declaratory relief claims. He leads Procopio’s Land Use practice group.