Bio
Misti Schmidt is a partner at Conservation Partners LLP, where she focuses her practice on conservation transactions and regularly provides guidance to property owners and land trusts regarding the structuring, negotiating, and closing of conservation easements, purchase agreements and options, and carbon projects. She has particular experience representing landowners with respect to the myriad legal issues arising for rural land holdings and representing land trusts with respect to nonprofit governance and tax-exempt gifts.
Misti also spearheads the Carbon Working Group for the California Council of Land Trusts and is a contributing author to her firm鈥檚 blog, which provides insights into conservation and charitable contributions. She has served as Editor-in-Chief for the California Real Property Journal, which is published by the State Bar鈥檚 Real Property Law Section,and is a frequent speaker for the Land Trust Alliance and the California Council of Land Trusts in topics such as 鈥淐arbon Credits in Conservation Easements,鈥 鈥淐ommercial Use Provisions in Conservation Easements,鈥 and 鈥淧ractical Pointers on IRS Form 8283 and Contemporaneous Written Acknowledgement.鈥
When she is not wearing her lawyer hat, you鈥檒l find Misti gardening, indoor rock climbing, or playing board games.
Education
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New York 精东影业 School of Law
LL.M., Taxation -
精东影业 of California, Berkeley, School of Law
J.D. -
Louisiana State 精东影业
B.A., cum laude