Elevate
Your Experience
California’s foremost legal advisor to mining, land use, energy, and renewable resource companies.
Our
Experience
creates opportunities.
At Mitchell Chadwick, we view ourselves as our clients’ strategic partners and we relentlessly pursue their objectives as our own.
We are results oriented
We strive to provide innovative and cost effective legal services, while understanding that our primary purpose is accomplishing our client’s business objectives.
Learn More
Mitigation and Conservation Banking
Our Team
provides results.
Our attorneys are nationally recognized for providing high-quality legal services to some of the largest natural resource development companies in the world.
Latest News
Western Burrowing Owl is now a Candidate Species under CESA
On October 10, 2024, the California Fish and Game Commission accepted a petition to list western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) and designated the species as a candidate species. Threats facing burrowing owls in California are direct mortality and permanent habitat loss caused by urbanization and ...Read More
Mitchell Chadwick LLP Partners Recognized as 2024 California Super Lawyers
We are pleased to share that G. Braiden Chadwick and Patrick G. Mitchell have again been recognized as 2024 Northern California Super Lawyers by Super Lawyers, which is a part of Thomson Reuters, for their high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Only a few attorneys from each state are selected to Super Lawyers ...Read More
SCOTUS Overrules Chevron Deference for Government Agencies
Today, June 28, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued an opinion (link HERE) overruling Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce. Chevron deference call referred to the prior rule that courts should defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of ambiguous statutes.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the opinion ...Read More
Biden administration finalizes reversal of Trump Endangered Species Act rollback
From The Hill:
The Biden administration on Thursday announced a finalized update to Endangered Species Act (ESA) rules that advocates say reverses some Trump administration rollbacks but fails to fully restore them.
In 2019, the Trump administration made a number of alterations to the ESA rules, including adding language to protection criteria to allow consideration of ...Read More
Contact Us