Resume & Experience

• Land Use Law
• Environmental Impact Reports
• Zoning
• Conditions & Fees for Housing & Commercial

Professional Associations

-Richard A. Schulman, A Professional Corporation, 2021-2025 (now retired)

-Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP (McDonald Hecht & Solberg), 1988-2021

-Law Offices of Ronald E. Null, 1987-1988

-Assistant City Attorney, Cities of Vista and Imperial Beach

-Council Representative for San Diego City Councilmember Judy McCarty, 1986 – 1987

-Real estate salesperson/computer programmer, 1983 – 1986

-Private land use consultant, 1981 – 1985

-Confidential Investigator for San Diego County Supervisor Paul Eckert, 1979-1981

-Economic analyst, Economic Development Corporation, Orange County, 1978

Selected Bar Admissions

-California Bar, 1985

-U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1991

-U.S. Supreme Court, 1995

Education

-University of San Diego, Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1984

-Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts, Department Honors in Economics, 1976

Accolades

-San Diego Super Lawyer in Land Use, 2014-2021

-Qualified as expert in land use law and practice in Superior Court

Representative Publications

-“IDO: Council’s Reactive Stupidity,” San Diego Daily Transcript, September 7, 1987

-“Economic Consequences of Policy,” San Diego Daily Transcript, February 25, 1992.

-“The California Environmental Quality Act: A Transactional Primer,” California Real Property

Journal, Summer 2003.

-“The Entitlements Clause in a Purchase and Sale Agreement: What Goes Where and Why It

Goes There,” California Real Property Journal, Fall 2003.

-“Land Use For Lenders: A Primer” (co-author), California Real Property Journal, Spring 2005.

-“Prop D’s Ultimate Question: Will Extra Services Be Worth Extra Cost?” San Diego Daily

Transcript, October 14, 2010.

-“Prevailing Wage Update: Private Developments May Be Public Works, Even in Charter Cities,”

The Pipeline (Center for Real Estate, University of San Diego), March 2011.

-“No, Disclosure Isn’t CEQA’s Main Purpose,” Voice of San Diego (voiceofsandiego.org),

January 7, 2015.

-“Environmental Impact Reports More Likely For Small Projects,” San Diego Daily Transcript,

April 2, 2015.

-“How the New EIR Ruling Hurts Smaller Projects,” GlobeSt.com, April 10, 2015.

-“City, Not Developer, Controls Defense of Developer Permits,” Los Angeles Daily Journal,

October 1, 2015, and San Diego Daily Transcript, October 5, 2015.

-“What’s Behind California’s Hiring Eric Holder?” San Diego Daily Transcript, January 23,

2017.

-“Attorney Fee System Harms Consumers and Society,” San Diego Daily Transcript, March 9,

2017; reprinted as “Attorney Fees System Is Bad For Us All,” Los Angeles Daily Journal,

March 10, 2017.

-“California Loses With Politicized Attorney Fee System,” Los Angeles Daily Journal and San

Diego Daily Transcript, May 5, 2017.

-“Every Judge Is Free (From What?),” Los Angeles Daily Journal, retitled “What Do You Mean,

‘Judicial Independence?,” San Diego Daily Transcript, September 11, 2017.

-“Developers Face Omnipresent Threat of Litigation,” San Diego Daily Transcript, January 18,

2018.

-“Don’t Tax You or Me. Tax That Guy Behind the Tree,” San Diego Daily Transcript, December

6, 2018.

-“California’s Judges, Meet Economist John Maynard Keynes,” Los Angeles Daily Journal,

August 30, 2019 (and San Diego Daily Transcript) August 26, 2019.

- "California Law Protects Speech on Facebook and Other Platforms," Los Angeles [San Francisco] Daily Journal, August 31, 2021.

- "Bounties For Enforcing Public Values Are Hardly Novel," Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal, March 24, 2022.

     Mr. Schulman has two copyrights for financial analysis computer software and a patent

 for a device to reduce the harm from motor vehicle crashes.