Allison C. Schutte, Partner, Hanson Bridgett LLP

Allison specializes in municipal law and assists public agencies with a variety of legal issues. Her work encompasses public water supply, complex long-term rate and revenue sharing agreements, Joint Power Agreements, infrastructure and project delivery analysis, public contracting, solid waste management, rate structure, Proposition 218 compliance, issuer’s counsel, disclosure matters, legislative drafting and open government and ethics.

Allison has special knowledge in representing water districts, cities and private water users in implementing multi-party recycled water projects. These engagements include negotiating the effluent delivery, customer agreements, financing, design, construction and operation of the projects. She has developed special skillfulness in implementing a variety of infrastructure projects with public owners and long-term private operators. She continues to serve as special counsel to cities, special districts and private entities for all matters related to public water systems.

Allison also has significant experience with resource recovery and waste reduction projects and solid waste franchise agreements. She serves as special counsel to cities that own their own materials recovery and compositing facilities and special districts and cities that contract out for collection, composting and disposal services. She has extensive experience in advising on compliance with California’s new organics recycling and food recovery law and development of related processing infrastructure.  

Allison leads the firm’s Government Section and is past chair of the firm’s pro bono committee.