Paul Early

Partner

Paul Early is a partner in the firm’s Riverside office, focusing his practice on handling a wide variety of legal issues including municipal law, water law, land use, environmental, construction law, and all aspects of representing public agencies.

Mr. Early specializes in Water,  Land Use and Public Contracting issues along with Brown Act and Conflicts of Interest issues.

Mr. Early graduated from the Indiana University School of Law with honors. Mr. Early currently serves as the Assistant City Attorney for the Cities of Murrieta, San Gabriel and Ridgecrest and the Assistant General Counsel for Eastern Municipal Water District, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, Bedford Coldwater Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Valley Center Fire Protection Agency and the Five Cities Fire Authority. Paul has also served as the in-house Assistant City Attorney for the cities of Oxnard, Moreno Valley and Glendale and as Deputy County Counsel for the County of Riverside. His City Attorney experience includes over 18 months serving as an Acting or Interim City Attorney.

Mr. Early has over 20 years of experience directly advising City Councils, Planning Commissions, and other public agency bodies on a variety of legal matters including land use, public contracting, water rights, electric and water utilities, conflicts of interest and Brown Act matters. As inhouse Assistant City Attorney, Mr. Early has managed the budget, employees, and the entirety of the legal and advisory work for a City of over 200,000.

His legal work has included the World Logistics Center Specific Plan and related litigation in Moreno Valley involving the largest logistics development plan in the western states, groundwater adjudications, recycled water contracts and agreements and large design-build public projects and infrastructure.