Who we are

 

Since 2002, M. R. Wolfe & Associates, P. C. has counseled public and private clients in navigating complex matters of land use, environmental law, ballot initiatives and referendums, and public agency law. By combining legal expertise with policy and planning insight, we develop comprehensive strategies that support sustainable, resource-efficient development at the federal, state, and local levels.

We regularly litigate land use and environmental cases on behalf of non-profit organizations, citizen groups, HOAs, and individual citizens in Federal and California trial courts and Courts of Appeal. We also represent clients in administrative permitting proceedings before state and local government agencies.

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Attorneys

Mark R. Wolfe, J.D., M.C.P.
mrw@mrwolfeassociates.com

  • Adjunct Faculty, Programs in Urban Studies & Public Policy, Stanford University, 2014-present.

  • Adjunct Faculty, Department of City & Regional Planning, U.C Berkeley, 1999-2012

  • J.D., University of California, Hastings College of Law, 1994

  • M.C.P., University of California, Berkeley, 1998

  • B.A., Stanford University, 1989

Mark Wolfe is a land use and environmental lawyer, and urban planner. He is a former staff attorney with the Natural Heritage Institute, a California non-profit environmental law and consulting firm. He has taught urban economics at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley, and his articles have appeared in Urban Affairs Review, the Cornell Journal of Planning and Urban issues, and the California Real Property Journal. He has been named to annual Lawyers of Distinction directory annually since 2018, and to the California SuperLawyers directory, since 2017.

 Detailed bio

John H. Farrow, J.D.
jfarrow@mrwolfeassociates.com

  • Researcher, Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program, Stanford Law School

  • J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000

  • B.A., University of San Francisco, 1982

John Farrow is a land use and environmental lawyer with expertise in water resources law, CEQA, and special status species matters. He has experience in public agency and administrative matters before federal, state, and local agencies, and is the lead research analyst for Stanford Law School's Global Watershed Project.