J. Abrams Law is a boutique law firm specialized in land use and real estate. The firm represents several of the most significant real estate developers and investors in the Bay Area.
Jim Abrams
Founder and Managing Attorney
Jim Abrams has significant expertise in land use planning law, including zoning, planning, the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), municipal law, and historic preservation law. His practice focuses on the negotiation of agreements with local governments, the supervision of the preparation of environmental documentation, the processing of entitlements through public hearings and community meetings and other administrative proceedings, as well as legal issues associated with project development and construction.
Jim Abrams was selected as one of The Recorder's 2011’s Attorneys of the Year for his work on the Parkmerced and Treasure Island projects in San Francisco. He was listed as a "Rising Star" in SuperLawyers for 2013 and 2014 and a SuperLawyer in 2019. He was selected as one of The Recorder's 50 "Fast Track" lawyers for the state of California.
Prior to founding J. Abrams Law, Mr. Abrams was Of Counsel at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Education
J.D. Stanford Law School, 2005
Master of City Planning,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
B.A. Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, University of California Berkeley, 1998
Nick Roosevelt
Associate Attorney
Nick Roosevelt is an associate at J. Abrams Law, P.C.. His practice focuses on obtaining land use entitlements for major real estate development projects in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout California. He also has significant experience advising institutional investors and lenders on development-related matters and has also represented property owners in complex land use enforcement matters. Prior to joining J. Abrams Law, P.C., Mr. Roosevelt worked as an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in its San Francisco Real Estate Department. He also served as a law clerk to The Honorable Helen Ginger Berrigan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Before attending law school, Mr. Roosevelt worked for the City of New Orleans as a Disaster Community Development Block Grant Project Manager. Mr. Roosevelt regularly draws on his non-legal planning and development project management experience when working with clients navigating complex entitlement processes.
Education
J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, Magna Cum Laude, 2015
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 2008
Dylan Rodolf
Associate Attorney
Prior to working at J. Abrams Law, P.C., Mr. Rodolf was an associate at Paul Hastings LLP, where he advised clients on a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions throughout the United States, including tenant-side office leasing, the acquisition and disposition of commercial properties, mixed-use development, and real estate finance. In law school, Mr. Rodolf earned an Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Real Estate and was a finalist in HUD's National Innovation in Affordable Housing Planning and Design Competition. Mr. Rodolf serves on the board of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel in San Francisco.
J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 2022
B.A., University of Oklahoma, Classics and Letters, summa cum laude, 2018
Kevin Dousa
Associate Attorney
Mr. Dousa’s concentration is in environmental law, with experience in land use, large project entitlement, and real estate matters.
While in law school, Mr. Dousa earned a Master of Science in Environment and Resources from the Stanford Earth School and served as lead editor of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Dousa spent a summer at the Morrison Foerster, LLP Palo Alto office in the transactional, venture capital, and emerging companies practice. Mr. Dousa also spent a summer with J. Abrams Law. P.C., working on some of San Francisco’s most significant development agreement projects. Prior to law school, Mr. Dousa was a legal clerk at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton.
J.D., Stanford Law School, 2022
Master of Science, Stanford University, 2022
B.A., University of California, Davis, English and & Philosophy, High and Highest Honors, 2018