ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

As Senior Counsel and the Director of City Receiverships at the law firm of Jones Mayer, Amanda Pope manages all agency-initiated receivership litigation for city and county clients throughout California seeking to abate substandard and dangerous properties. Ms. Pope and her team guide code enforcement departments through each step of the specialized receivership process before and during the litigation. Ms. Pope has over a decade of receivership experience and she and her team at Jones Mayer work diligently to ensure an efficient result for the public agency.

Ms. Pope has dedicated her legal career to representing public entities. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Riverside and in private practice, she represented cities and counties throughout California. Ms. Pope has taught several classes on receiverships and various subjects pertaining to the legal aspects of code enforcement throughout California. 

Attorney Richardson Griswold of Griswold Law, APC acts as a court-appointed Receiver and court-appointed Partition Referee in California. Mr. Griswold has been appointed by more than two hundred (200) California courts in twenty-two different California counties. He served on the Board of Directors of the California Receivers Forum for several years and was the 2019 President of the California Receivers Forum.

Mr. Griswold is a member of the California State Bar and licensed to practice law in all California state courts, as well as the United States District Courts in the Southern, Eastern and Central Districts of California. Mr. Griswold earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis and his law degree, magna cum laude, from California Western School of Law in San Diego. Mr. Griswold is also a licensed California Real Estate Broker. He currently co-owns a property management company in San Diego (Red House Property Management) and also previously served as Vice President of a commercial and residential property management company in Los Angeles.

Further, Mr. Griswold acts as an expert witness regarding receiver duty of care, management/operations of multi-family and hospitality properties and habitability standards. He is consistently invited to speak at conferences and seminars in California and across the nation on the use of the receivership remedy.