City Attorney’s Office - Airport Division
The Airport Division of the City Attorney’s Office provides legal advice and representation on all matters related to the operation and management of the four airports operated by LAWA. We handle a wide range of matters, including contracts, leases, concessions, permits, licenses, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, personal injury, bankruptcy, municipal financing, land use, landlord-tenant, insurance and risk management, nuisance, bankruptcy, exercise of First Amendment rights, noise regulations, engineering, construction, federal regulations, labor law, police matters, the City Charter, Administrative and Municipal codes, conflict of interest, ethics, Public Records Act, the Brown Act and environmental law. We also handle litigation, including supervision of outside counsel, in lawsuits pending in state and federal courts and before various administrative bodies such as the Civil Services Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission and the U.S. and California Departments of Transportation.
To request legal assistance, LAWA staff should submit a written memo (Blue form) describing the work needed or the question to be addressed to Ray Ilgunas. For proper work assignment and records purposes, all matters are logged in, a file is opened and an attorney is assigned. Matters are assigned on the basis of work load and expertise.
The new main telephone number for the City Attorney’s Airport Branch is (424) 646-5010.
The Attorneys in our division are:
General Counsel: Ray Ilgunas.
Assistant General Counsel: Tim Daze.
Transactional lawyers working on airport issues/contracts/leases/concessions/etc:
Cynthia Alexander, Tim Daze, Nargis Choudhry, Nichole Kelso, Linh Nguyen, Helen Sok, Rosario Tobias, Suzanne Tracy, Michael Ty and Tamami Yamaguchi.
Employment and other Litigation: Patricia Mor, and Kerrin Tso.
Police and other Litigation: Mark Burton.
Workers Compensation: Lori Kemp and Andre Rocher.
Construction Matters: Brian Ostler and John Tavetian.
Environmental Matters: Nargis Choudhry, Linh Nguyen, Suzanne Tracy.
Master Plan, Development and Planning Matters: Suzanne Tracy
