Steinfeld, Amy

Author Description

Amy Steinfeld serves as office managing partner of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Santa Barbara office. Her unique practice focuses on the intersection of land use and water law. She regularly advises water districts, regulated utilities, cities, developers, and agricultural interests, including nut and cannabis growers, in all aspects of water law. Amy has more than a decade of experience in the permitting and development of controversial projects throughout the state. She represents numerous cannabis cultivators, and specializes in conducting due diligence to locate and identify appropriate properties for cannabis cultivation, with a unique emphasis on water rights.

Authored Reports

Cannabis & Water Regulation: Sorting Through the Weeds - Legal Cannabis Ushers in a New Era of Water Regulation in California