When Experience Matters.

Dale's practice focuses on representing clients in their interactions with government agencies, forming and representing nonprofit organizations and negotiating and drafting agreements for the sale of agricultural commodities.  He also regularly appears on behalf of clients before state and federal courts, administrative agencies, and in mediation and arbitration proceedings.

Dale is a published writer, has served as an expert witness and regularly presents seminars on a variety of topics, including fiduciary duties of directors and officers of nonprofit organizations and negotiating and drafting sales agreements for California agricultural interests.  

A member of the State Bar of California, the American Society of Association Executives, and the American Agricultural Law Association, Dale is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and all of the Federal District Courts within California.

Dale earned his Juris Doctor at the UC Davis School of Law and his Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Biology with an emphasis on government regulation of agriculture from Cal Poly, Pomona where he was awarded the Voorhis Alumni Scholarship for Agriculture in his senior year.

Before attending law school, Dale worked as a transmission lineman for the Southern California Edison Company constructing and repairing high voltage towers throughout central and southern California.

Dale and his wife, Sheree, live near Sacramento and have two daughters and five grandchildren.

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