Experience
Pamela Schock Mintzer is a partner at Wendel Rosen. In a nutshell, Pamela helps public agencies deliver projects that benefit their communities. She works tirelessly on behalf of her clients to overcome the countless challenges inherent in any public project, and assists property owners, communities, and projects to resolve the issues that occur at the intersections between funding, design, acquisition, and construction.
She spends the majority of her time on cases involving eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and public agency law, including acting as General Counsel to a number of local transportation agencies and joint powers authorities. She has extensive experience in state and federal court at both the trial and appellate levels. Her efforts, from a project’s early stages through trial and beyond, allow public agencies to deliver public projects on time and on budget.
Pamela's recent successes include:
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Defeated within thirty days a lawsuit against the public agencies involved in a major public transportation project to the south bay, which sought to stop the project’s funding, saving the agencies considerable litigation costs and allowing the project to secure funding and begin construction
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Simultaneously led three separate project teams to obtain, in under six months, necessary property interests from over 75 parcels of land prior to state deadlines, which secured more than $225 million in funds for the projects
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Trial counsel for the acquisition of land for a major highway project with a jury verdict below the agency's final settlement offer
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Represents large bay area city acquiring property interests in series of matters involving complex project and environmental challenges, nuanced valuation issues, and short funding deadlines
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Counsels multinational corporations and landowners in successful negotiations with condemning agencies
Education
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J. Reuben Clark School of Law, Brigham Young University; J.D. (1994)
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Mills College, Oakland, CA; B.A. (1987)
