Philip Kohn

About Philip Kohn

Philip Kohn is of counsel in the Government and Regulatory group at Rutan & Tucker in Irvine. He handles transactional, trial, and appellate matters for public entities and for private clients dealing with government agencies. He concentrates on land use regulation, planning and zoning, environmental law, eminent domain and inverse condemnation, civil rights and constitutional law, and general municipal affairs. He served as City Attorney of Laguna Beach from 1982 to 2023 and of Irvine from 2006 to 2013, and as General Counsel of the Orange County Great Park Corporation from 2010 to 2013. He has also worked on state and local ballot measures. He is admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit. He earned his J.D. from UC Hastings, a master's degree from the University of Birmingham in England as a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. with honors from Cal State Fullerton.

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California State Bar No. 90158 (Active admitted 1979-11-29)