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Skye Langs, Esq.
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass https://www.coblentzlaw.com/attorneys/skye-d-y-langs/
About The Lecturer
Skye Langs’ practice focuses on complex civil litigation in state and federal court, with significant experience preventing and resolving disputes in real estate, land use, leasing, landlord-tenant, and CEQA matters. She has successfully defended the approvals for numerous projects, including major mixed-use developments and sports and entertainment venues, against challenges arising under the California Environmental Quality Act and other state and local land use laws. She also represents property owners, developers, and commercial tenants in disputes concerning lease terms, evictions, purchase and sale agreements, easements, partitions, property line disputes, and receiverships.
In addition to her land use and real estate practice, Skye assists a diverse range of clients on a wide variety of litigation and pre-litigation matters. With advanced strategic thinking and careful attention to their needs, she guides her clients through the resolution of a broad range of legal issues, including those involving breach of contract, trusts and estates, elder abuse, personal injury, labor and employment, construction, government regulations, fraud, theft, and violations of personal and data privacy.
Skye also has an active pro bono practice. She has represented low-income San Francisco residents fighting eviction and partition actions, and helped individuals obtain increased veteran’s benefits, clean up their criminal records, recover legal judgments, obtain conservatorships, and challenge the constitutionality of provisions of the California Penal Code.
Prior to law school, Skye was a tenured high school English teacher and Cross Country coach in Fremont, California.
Skye is a member of the State Bar of California, the Bar Association of San Francisco, and is a former member of the Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court (2018-2022). She is active with the Urban Land Institute, currently serving on the San Francisco Local Commercial Product Council and the San Francisco Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) committee, and is in her second year as a WLI Connects cohort leader. She is admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Northern District of California.
Skye graduated magna cum laude from the University of California College of Law, San Francisco (Hastings). During law school, she externed for the Honorable Jeffrey White in the Northern District of California and interned at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in San Francisco. She was also a member of Hastings’ award-winning moot court team.
Skye earned her B.A. in Philosophy, with honors, from Grinnell College in Iowa. She currently serves as a Class Fund Director and is a member of the reunion planning committee.
Practice Area(s)
Litigation
Real Estate
Landlord Tenant
Public Interest
Education
J.D., magna cum laude, University of California College of Law, San Francisco
B.A., with honors, Grinnell College
