Aaron Baker

Aaron Baker

Attorney


Practice Areas

  • Water Law
    -Water rights
    -Regulatory compliance
    -Transfers
    -Leases
    -Conservation easements
    -Forbearance agreements

  • Real Property
    -Easements
    -HOA
    -Transaction
    -Leases

  • Groundwater Management
    -Basin adjudications
    -Groundwater Basin Management -Conjunctive use

  • Administrative Law
    -Rate-setting
    -Environmental permitting

  • Land Trust General Counsel
    -Acquisition
    -Insurance Management   

Aaron is a contract attorney at DeMartini, Walker, & Ghaedi, where he provides litigation support for various real property matters.  Aaron works with clients on matters pertaining to real estate transactions, easements, and lease holdings. 

Aaron graduated from UC Hastings where he focused intensively on issues of water law and policy, public lands, and administrative law. After chairing the 2008 California Water Law Symposium, Aaron went on to work in the water group at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in Santa Barbara. Aaron eventually returned to the Bay Area, where he founded a tech startup while continuing to represent clients on a variety of water- and property-related matters.

Aaron has experience working in the courts, having externed at the Law and Motion Department at the Superior Court of San Francisco and interned with the Hon. James Lambden in First District Court of Appeal.

 

Education

  • J.D. University of California at San Francisco (formerly U.C. Hastings)

  • M.A. University of Chicago

  • B.A. University of California at Berkeley

Professional Associations and Memberships

C.A.L.I. Award, California Water Resources Seminar (2008)

C.A.L.I. Award, California Water Law and Policy (2007)

Outside of the office, Aaron enjoys spending time with his family surfing, mountain biking and rock climbing.