JAMES R. PARRINELLO (Marin County office) is the senior litigation partner and a member of the firm's Management Committee.

For more than 25 years, Mr. Parrinello has represented clients in regulatory, constitutional and government law and complex litigation. He has argued cases successfully before the United States and California Supreme Courts and Courts of Appeal. Mr. Parrinello is an expert on the constitutionality of governmental regulations; legality of state and local initiatives and referenda; voting rights and reapportionment; rent control and property rights. Representative cases include Citizens Against Rent Control v. Berkeley, 454 U.S. 290 (1981) [successfully argued that ordinance limiting contributions to ballot measure campaigns violates the First Amendment], Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association v. Deukmejian, 227 Cal.App.3d 663 (1991) [successfully argued Proposition 105, the so-called Public's Right to Know Act, violated the California Constitution]; Pala Band of Mission Indians v. Board of Supervisors, 54 Cal.App.4th 565 (1997) [successfully defended legality of San Diego County initiative establishing zoning and general plan amendments for sanitary waste facility]; San Francisco 49ers v. Nishioka, 75 Cal.App.4th 637 (1999) [successfully invalidated initiative for false representations to prospective signers]; Citizens to Save California v. California Fair Political Practices Commission, 145 Cal.App.4th 736 (2006) [invalidated FPPC regulation restricting contributions to candidate controlled ballot measure committees]; County of Amador v. Ione Band of Miwok Indians, 149 Cal.App.4th 1089 (2007) [invalidated Tribal-City Municipal Services Agreement which violated CEQA].

Mr. Parrinello was a Governor's appointee to the California Commission on Ballot Initiatives, and has served on the faculty of the Hastings College of Trial and Appellate Advocacy.

Mr. Parrinello is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and the University of San Francisco School of Law where he was the class valedictorian. He is a member of the Litigation and Government Litigation Sections of the American Bar Association.