Experience

Rutan & Tucker, LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Partner

  • Sep 2003 - Present

  Peter Howell is a partner at the law firm of Rutan & Tucker, LLP, and a member of the firm’s Land Use and Entitlement Section. Peter's practice includes litigation and advisory matters involving governmental agencies, as well as litigation between private parties, and focuses on environmental and land use matters. Peter regularly advises property owners and developers with land use entitlement issues, both by helping to guide projects through the entitlement and environmental review (CEQA) process and conducting due diligence review in connection with property acquisitions. He has represented a wide variety of private and public-sector clients, including property owners, developers, business owners, cities, counties, water districts, redevelopment agencies, and school districts. Peter has a number of published appellate opinions, including Landwatch San Luis Obispo County v. Cambria Community Services District (2018) 25 Cal.App.5th 638, Tuolumne Jobs & Small Business Alliance v. Superior Court of Tuolumne County (2014) 59 Cal. 4th 1029, Soco West, Inc. v. California Environmental Protection Agency (2013) 213 Cal. App. 4th 1511, Del Cerro Mobile Estates v. City of Placentia (2011) 197 Cal. App. 4th 173, Fullerton Redevelopment Agency v. Southern California Gas Co. (2010) 183 Cal. App. 4th 428, and Golden State Boring & Pipe Jacking, Inc. v. Orange County Water Dist. (2006) 143 Cal. App. 4th 718. He has also presented or co-presented numerous programs on land use law topics, including the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”). Show less



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst

  • Jul 1998 - Jul 2000