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Dolores Bastian Dalton is a partner at Goldfarb Lipman, LLP. She has extensive experience litigating and mediating land use, housing, public entity, enforcement, nonprofit and commercial disputes in state and federal trial courts, and on appeal. Ms. Dalton has been certified by the State Bar of California as a specialist in appellate law. Ms. Dalton is also a trained mediator and a member of the mediation panels for the California Court of Appeal for the Third and Sixth Districts. She has successfully mediated numerous complex civil and land use disputes. She has specialized expertise in writ of mandate and summary judgment practice.

Ms. Dalton was appointed an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she taught Practical Litigation Skills. She has also taught in the University of California Berkeley’s Fall Program for Freshmen. Ms. Dalton has participated in numerous panels addressing the Legislature’s recent revisions to the Housing Accountability Act, the Housing Element Law, and related issues.

Ms. Dalton is the former chair of the City of Albany Planning Commission. She has also been a member of former California Senator and Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner’s A.D. 14 “Women of the Year” committee. She volunteers for the Sonoma County Lawyers in the Library Program, and is the Vice-President of The Mediation Society of San Francisco. Ms. Dalton sits as a Judge Pro Tem for the San Francisco and Sonoma Superior Courts.