Steven C. DeBaun

Partner

Riverside
3750 University Avenue, Suite 400
P.O. Box 1028

TEL: (951) 826-8201
FAX: (951) 686-3083
Steven.Debaun@bbklaw.com

Steven C. DeBaun is a Partner at Best Best & Krieger LLP and recently served as the Managing Partner of the Riverside office. His areas of expertise include transportation law, infrastructure issues, land use and planning law, general municipal, environmental law and special district law.

Mr. DeBaun assists a variety of the firm’s municipal clients and has acted as legal counsel to a number of public agencies, including the Riverside County Transportation Commission, Big Bear Area Regional Wastewater Agency, the Big Bear Community Services District, the Jurupa Unified School District, the San Fernando Interim Transportation Zone, the Amador County Transportation Commission, and Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority. He specializes in transportation law, capital infrastructure issues, special district law, and school law and has acted as special counsel to the County of Riverside, the Western Riverside Council of Governments, the County of San Bernardino, the San Bernardino Associated Governments and the City of Los Angeles on transportation matters. 

Mr. DeBaun received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.  He majored in history and graduated with Distinction.  He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.  Mr. DeBaun was a member of the UCLA Law Review and author of a comment for the Law Review.

Sample publications include Planning in Hard Times: The High Price of Planning, Land Use Form (co-written with Dallas Holmes); Court Decision Requires Stronger Justification for Exactions, California Planner; and Rider v. County of San Diego: New Constraints on Local Taxes, Public Law Journal.

Mr. DeBaun is a member of various legal organizations, including the Riverside County Bar Association; State Bar of California (member, sections on land use and public law); and American Bar Association (member, section on urban, state and local government law).

Mr. DeBaun lives with his wife and children in Yorba Linda.

Bar & Court Admissions

• California, 1987

Education

• JD, University of California at Los Angeles
• BA, University of California at Berkeley