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Bio
Overview
Devon B. Lincoln is a Partner in Lozano Smith's Monterey office and co-chair of the firm's Facilities and Business Practice Group. She is also involved in the firm's Charter Schools Practice Group. After practicing international, environmental and transactional law in Washington, D.C., Ms. Lincoln relocated to California and joined Lozano Smith in 2003.
Drawing on her experience as a corporate attorney on large transactions, Ms. Lincoln focuses her practice on construction, bidding, solar projects and clean energy, general facilities and business issues, and matters involving charter schools, including charter school governance and facilities issues and creating dependent charter schools. She also coordinates the firm's Client News Brief Program.
Presenter Experience
Ms. Lincoln has presented at numerous Lozano Smith Facilities and Business Consortia on topics such as "A Primer on Paper Cuts: Document Retention, The Public Records Act, The Brown Act and Email" and "What To Do When Third Parties Come Knocking To Use School Facilities," and the Webinar, "Going Green and Conserving Energy." She has also presented at the California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO) Annual Conference on technology legal issues facing school districts, the Small School Districts Association (SSDA) and the California School Boards Association (CSBA) conferences on charter school matters. Ms. Lincoln recently presented a webinar in collaboration with CASBO on the topic of How Understanding the Private Financing of Public Agency Solar Transactions Can Get You a Better Deal.
Education
Ms. Lincoln received her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1999. She was a visiting student at Georgetown University Law Center. She earned a B.A. degree in English and Political Science from Columbia University in 1996.
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Data Breach Notification Law Gets Updates With Important Implications
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Significant New Developer Fee Cases
Mandatory Prequalification on Certain School District Projects is Here to Stay
New Law Indefinitely Extends Community College Use of Best Value Process in Bidding
New Law Updates Bidding Preferences for Various Public Agencies
New Law Could Reduce Public School Energy Costs
New Law Eases Path to School Employee Housing
Lead-Safe Schools Protection Act: The Continuing Duty to Address Lead
Paper Laws, Electronic Records: An Overview of Record Retention Laws for California School Employees
Lawmakers Extend Deadline for Proposition 39 Energy Efficiency Funding and Create New Program
Governor Signs Bill Limiting Design Professionals' Duty to Indemnify Against Liability
Public Agency Notification Requirements under the Information Practices Act
Agency Case Study: Lessons from a Real-Life Cyberattack
School District Bid Threshold Raised for 2017
New Claims Resolution Process Will Apply to All Public Contracts Effective January 1, 2017
California Court Rules that Charter Schools Generally Cannot Locate Outside of Their Authorizing School District's Boundaries
Legislature Imposes New Procedures for Selection of Lease-Leaseback Contractors
California Energy Commission Sets Eligibility Deadline for Proposition 39 Funds
Watts in Your Wallet - Financing Clean Energy Projects (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our discussion on the complex topic of clean energy projects and how they are financed, Sloan Simmons talks with Devon Lincoln and Daniel Maruccia about the options for financing such projects and the overarching themes impacting this area of the law.Watts in Your Wallet - Financing Clean Energy Projects (Part 1)
In Part I of a discussion on the complex topic of clean energy projects and how they are financed, Sloan Simmons talks to Dan Maruccia and Devon Lincoln about the wide range of such projects, and the challenges public agencies face in determining how to finance them.It's Time to Fill Out Your Form 700!
It's that time of year, when California public servants must prepare and submit their annual statements of economic interest. The statement, commonly referred to as Form 700, is due on April 2 this year. Devon Lincoln talks to ethics expert Tom Gauthier about common pitfalls in filling out the form, what you need to know to get it right, and why it matters.Life with Janus
Labor and employment specialists Lou Lozano and Darren Kameya join Devon Lincoln for a discussion of the unique challenges arising at the public employee union bargaining table in 2019. The conversation covers the fallout from the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME, the implications of the LAUSD strike and other labor actions, and how public agencies can attempt to navigate in these complicated times.Lozano Smith is pleased to provide public agencies with an in-depth Janus Toolkit including important background information, answers to frequently asked questions, an implementation checklist, templates for communication, and more. Download the toolkit at: www.lozanosmith.com/janustoolkit.