Legal reviewer
Gregory G. Brown, Esq.
Founding Partner, Brown & Charbonneau, LLP, Irvine, California
Gregory G. Brown is a California trial attorney with more than 30 years of experience and a founding partner of Brown & Charbonneau, LLP in Irvine. He is a State Bar of California Certified Specialist in Civil Trial Advocacy and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). His practice includes business and commercial litigation and real estate and construction matters.
He has been selected to Super Lawyers every year since 2009, named to Best Lawyers in America, holds an AV-Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and has been listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers since 1997. He earned his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law.
On los-angeles.com, Mr. Brown reviews content relating to accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and related California and Los Angeles property rules for legal accuracy. He also reviews the site's rent increase content: the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance, California AB 1482, rent increase notice requirements and just cause eviction. On October 12, 2026 he reviewed the decision logic of the site's Am I rent controlled? coverage checker, which is the order its questions are asked in and the verdict each set of answers reaches. On October 16, 2026 he reviewed the site's SB 9 lot split and duplex checker and its Los Angeles home-sharing checker, in both cases returning corrections that were applied before his name appeared on either.
What this reviewer covers
Accessory dwelling units (ADUs); Los Angeles and California rent increase law: the Rent Stabilization Ordinance, AB 1482, rent increase notices and just cause eviction; the decision logic of the Am I rent controlled? coverage checker; California SB 9 lot splits and two-unit developments; and the City of Los Angeles home-sharing rules.
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