Pamela S. Duffy - Coblentz Law

Details

P 415.391.4800

Education

J.D., cum laude,

Loyola University (1978)
B.A.

California State University, Los Angeles (1970)

Practices

Real Estate

Industries

Cultural & Educational Institutions

Sports

A law firm, if it is fortunate, will have a small number of transformative partners in every generation – attorneys who lead the firm to new levels of excellence, of breadth, of achievement, and of recognition. Pamela Duffy has been that for our firm. She is a true builder – for the firm and for her clients. One of the most esteemed land use attorneys in the country, Pam has served as indispensable legal strategist for a remarkable list of signature projects, including: the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s® Stadium, the San Francisco Exploratorium, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark, the 300-acre San Francisco Mission Bay development, the LA Clippers’ arena in Inglewood, the transformative San Francisco Yerba Buena Center, and the Sutter Health/California Pacific Medical Center, which includes five campuses and two new hospitals in San Francisco. It is hard to say for sure whether these projects would have been as successful without Pam’s leadership. It is easy to say for sure that the law firm would not have been.

Pam is an elected member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the International Women’s Forum. She serves on the National Advisory Council of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Natural & Social Sciences at California State University, Los Angeles. She has served on the boards of public television station KQED, Inc., the Exploratorium, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR), and, in a true labor of love, now serves on the board of ODC/Dance, San Francisco’s renowned contemporary dance institution. Pam is a member of Lambda Alpha International and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Pam has received numerous national, state and local honors and recognitions, has served as a visiting lecturer at law schools and universities including UCLA, Harvard, MIT, and Yale, and has taught undergraduate seminars at UC Berkeley.