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Conor serves as City Attorney for the City of Colfax and as General Counsel for the Humboldt County Association of Governments. Conor is also Senior Counsel in the firm’s litigation practice group, where he represents public agencies in public finance, public records, CEQA, code enforcement, elections, and law enforcement disputes, including a rare petition for review in the California Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction.
Conor graduated from the McGeorge School of Law with distinction. While in law school, Conor externed for the Honorable Ronald Robie on California’s Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento. Before law school, he was a business systems analyst in McKesson Corporation’s IT department. He has a bachelor’s in English Literature from the University of Puget Sound.
Conor volunteers as Secretary of the Nevada County Bar Association. He enjoys hiking, skiing, and backpacking in the High Sierra.
Practice Areas:
- Appellate Advocacy
- Brown Act
- California Environmental Quality Act
- California Public Records Act
- Code Enforcement
- Constitutional Law
- Elections
- Public Finance
Representative matters:
- Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. County of Napa (2025) 112 Cal.App.5th 952 (defense of Napa County property tax)
- Alameda County Taxpayers’ Assn. v. County of Alameda (2025) 108 Cal.App.5th 524 (defense of Alameda County general sales tax)
- County of Alameda v. Alameda County Taxpayers’ Assn., Inc. (2024) 99 Cal.App.5th 226 (defense of initiative special sales tax)
- Martin v. County of Yuba, Super. Ct. Yuba County, 2022, No. CV22-00504 (defense of California Public Records Act claims)
- Protect Our Plaza v. City of Sonoma, Super. Ct. Sonoma County, 2022, No. SCV-265261 (defense of California Environmental Quality Act claims)
- Wilde v. City of Dunsmuir (2020) 9 Cal.5th 1105 (defense of Dunsmuir’s water rates from referendum)