Principal

Julia Donoho, Architect and Attorney at Law, combines architecture, planning, and project management, with legal experience, to focus on complex issues related to development and construction. She has worked for world renowned architects, run her own architectural practice, and served as a capital project manager in local government.

Legal services performed include consultation, mediation, litigation, advocacy, and expert witness for construction disputes, post-disaster insurance negotiations, contract documents, planning entitlements, real estate disputes, construction defect, employment law/civil rights litigation, patent infringement, bid protests, Public Contract Code violation, CEQA, NEPA, environmental remediation claims, ADA disputes, and HOA disputes.

EXAMPLES:

Community advocacy and organizing for the "Whole Neighborhood" rebuilding concept

Representing Owner in construction disputes w/ multiple contractors and HOA - Current

Defense expert witness AIA Contracts, Subcontractor claim – Outcome: plaintiff settled

Representing High School in contract dispute with Architect – Settled

Representing scientific equipment broker – Contract disputes, private party and federal contracts

Representing plaintiff at Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission on Public Contracting Dispute

Representing plaintiff in Real Estate dispute – Outcome: defendant settled

Representing Multi-Family Developer at Planning Commission and Design Review Board

Presentations for large organizations re: Discrimination and equity in the building industry

Professional Associations and Community Service

From 2013-15, on the AIA National Board of Directors, Donoho led three Gold Medal campaigns Julia Morgan, FAIA, Robert Venturi, FAIA, and Denise Scott Brown Hon. FAIA, and Paul Revere Williams, FAIA. Currently, Donoho Chairs the American Institute of Architects, Redwood Empire, Firestorm Recovery Committee and brings understanding of the intersection of Insurance, mortgages, construction costs, and recovery possibilities.

Sonoma County Bar Association

California State Bar

National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) – Annually – Accreditation Visits

American Institute of Architects (AIA) –

National Board Member and Strategic Council
AIA California Council Board Member, Advocacy Advisory Committee
AIA Redwood Empire President, VP, Director of Regional and Urban Affairs
AIA Los Angeles – Regional and Urban Affairs Committee

Board Member, Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation (BWAF)

Board Member, The Jefferson Society (TJS) (Architect-Attorneys)

Board Member, The Streamline Institute

Member, Urban Land Institute

Upper San Juan Regional Planning Commissioner, Secretary

Pagosa Springs Historical Commission, Founding Board Member

Licensed to Practice Architecture

California

Arizona

Colorado

Licensed to Practice Law

Admission – California State Bar

Admission – United States Supreme Court

Admission – Northern District of California – Federal Court