Pamela S. Duffy

Pam Duffy practices in the areas of commercial real estate, land use, and development, with a special expertise in large public and private entity transactions. She has acted as lead counsel for numerous major development projects, including one of the largest rebuilding projects in San Francisco history, the $2.5 billion Sutter Health/California Pacific Medical Center, which includes five campuses and two new hospitals spread across the city. She is currently lead counsel for the LA Clippers’ new Inglewood, CA arena.

She is renowned for her in-depth understanding of the long-term implications of development requirements and how they affect construction, financing, operation, leasing, and sale of a development project. Pam is unusually skilled at helping clients find elegant solutions to the challenges that arise in the development of complex public/private projects.

Pam serves on the Board of Directors of the National Advisory Council of the Institute of Governmental Studies at U.C. Berkeley and is a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Natural & Social Sciences at California State University, Los Angeles. She has previously served on the boards of the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, the San Francisco Chapter of Lambda Alpha, The Exploratorium, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR), The City Club, the International Museum of Women Advisory Committee, the Old Mission Dolores Restoration Project, the Margaret Jenkins Dance Co., the United Cerebral Palsy Association of San Francisco, and KQED, Inc.

Additionally, she was a member of the San Francisco Mayor’s 2015 Housing Working Group, and a mayoral appointee to the Citizen’s Advisory Committee on the Reuse of Treasure Island Naval Base.

Pam graduated with honors from California State University, Los Angeles, in 1970 and earned her law degree, cum laude, from Loyola University, Los Angeles, in 1978. While at Loyola, she was elected to the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society and served as a Lead Articles Editor of the Loyola Law Review.

Pam Duffy is one of the most recognized land use attorneys in San Francisco. Her many accolades include:

— Chambers USA, ranked Tier 1 in land use and real estate law (2003-2019)

— Best Lawyers San Francisco Lawyer of the Year: Real Estate (2016)

— National Law Journal Outstanding Women Lawyers (2015)

— Daily Journal Top 50 Development Lawyers (2014)

— Best Lawyers San Francisco Lawyer of the Year: Litigation – Land Use & Zoning (2014)

— San Francisco Business Times Northern California Real Estate Women of Influence, Hall of Fame (2013)

— Chambers USA, National Real Estate Lawyer of the Year (2013 and 2012), Women in Law Award

— Daily Journal Top 30 Real Estate Lawyers (2012)

— Best Lawyers San Francisco Lawyer of the Year (2011 and 2010)

— Daily Journal Top 100 Lawyers in California (2011 and 2010)

— San Francisco Business Times 100 Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business (2005-2010); inducted as a Forever Influential Woman (2011)

— California Real Estate Journal Dealmaker of the Year for her work on the Presidio Landmark, conversion of the Public Health Services Hospital in San Francisco to residential uses (2009)

— Northern California Real Estate Women of Influence by GlobeSt.com (2009)

— California Lawyer California Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award for her work on the Westfield San Francisco Centre (2009)

— San Francisco Chronicle, Top 25 Lawyers in the San Francisco Bay Area (2003)

— Daily Journal, Top 12 Land-Use Attorney in California (2002)

In 2003, Pam was recognized as a distinguished alum of Loyola Law School, and in 2014, recognized as one of 50 Inspirational Alumni. In 2017, Pam was recognized as a California State University, Los Angeles Alumna of the Year. Pam is a chosen member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Lambda Alpha International, as well as the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell and is a member of a select group of women in Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers.

For over 20 years, Pam has been ranked as one of The Best Lawyers in America by Best Lawyers and has been annually listed as a Super Lawyer in Northern California. She is listed in International Who’s Who of Real Estate Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal: California, and Cambridge Who’s Who Registry among Executive and Professional Women.