Michael Duane Davis
Shareholder
Mr. Davis has over thirty years of experience in real estate and business litigation, including complex real estate litigation, eminent domain and inverse condemnation proceedings, land use, property/home/condominium owners' association litigation, organized real estate, defense and enforcement of real property transactions, protection of property rights, water rights litigation and groundwater basin adjudication; and in business development and representation, including the formation and ongoing representation of all forms of business entities including non-profit organizations, real property transactions, land use, organized real estate and water rights.
Additional Practice Areas
Condemnation
Water Rights
Education
- Southwestern University, School of Law, Los Angeles, California, J.D., 1980
- University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, B.A., 1971
Bars
- California, 1980
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1984
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1983
- U.S. District Court of California, Central District, 1980
- U.S. District Court of California, Southern District, 1985
- U.S. District Court of California, Northern District, 1997
- U.S. District Court of California, Eastern District, 2000
- U.S. Tax Court, 1983
- California Supreme Court, 1980
Affiliations
- San Bernardino County Bar Association, 1980-present, Member
- Riverside County Bar Association, 2011, Member
- The State Bar of California, 1980-present, Member, Business Law/Real Estate Law Sections
- American Bar Association, 1978-present, Member
- High Desert Bar Association, President, 1983 - 1985, Director, 1981 - 1985
- California Association of Realtors, Legal Affairs, Committee, Member, 1985-present
- Association of California Water Agencies, Member
- Victor Valley Community College District, Trustee, 1983-1987, Secretary, 1984-1985, President, 1985-1987
- Victor Valley College District Foundation, Director, 1985-2003, Chairman, 1988-1994
- San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee, Elected Member, 1987-1993, Director, 1988-1989, Chairman, 1989-1990, Alternate Member, 2002-Present
- San Bernardino National Forest Association, President, 2005, Director, 2003, President, 2010
- Technical Advisory Committee to the Mojave Water Agency, Vice Chairman, 2003-Present
- Excelsior (formerly Excelsior Education Center) Director, 2005-2010, President, 2005-2008, Clerk, 2009
- Hartman Foundation, Director, 2001-Present, Vice President and President-Elect, 2010
- Mitsubishi Cement Corporation Educational Foundation, Director, 2005-present
- High Desert Community Foundation, Director, 2004-Present, President, 2010
- Victor Valley Republican Club, Founding Member
- Lincoln Club of the Victor Valley, Founding Member
- Master Mason, Fox-Coates Daylight Lodge No. 842, F&AM of California, 1997-present
- Rotary Club of Apple Valley, 1981-2000
- Rotary Club of Victor Valley Sunrise, President, 2001-2002, Director, 2000-Present
- Rotary International Foundation, 1982-present, Member
- Paul Harris Fellow, Member, 1985-present
- Paul Harris Society, Member, 2005-2007
- High Desert Rotary Clubs Foundation Committee, Chairperson, 2005-2006
- Victorville Chamber of Commerce, Director, 1985-1986, Member, 1983-present
- Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce, Member, 2008-present