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Alison E. Geddes

Shareholder

Sacramento

916.558.6039

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Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • California

EDUCATION

J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, 2004

B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000

Experience

Alison Geddes is a shareholder in Weintraub’s Real Estate practice group.

Alison understands the business of commercial property ownership and management, and she works with clients to achieve results consistent with their business objectives in both drafting and enforcing commercial leases.

Alison’s transactional practice includes representing property owners in negotiating and drafting commercial lease documents, including leases, amendments, assignments, and termination agreements. Her commercial property management experience includes assisting owners and managers of retail, industrial, office, and mixed-use property in all aspects of lease enforcement, including the analysis of lease compliance, the preparation and service of default notices to tenants, unlawful detainer litigation, breach of lease litigation, judgment enforcement, CAM disputes, and issues pertaining to abandonment of leased property and tenants’ personal property.

Alison is a panelist and speaker on leasing, lease enforcement, and property management issues, including seminars for the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), and seminars for Continuing Education of the Bar.  Additionally, she provides seminars for clients on specific leasing and property management issues.

Representative Litigation Experience

  • Represents property owners and developers in the negotiation and drafting of commercial leasing and other lease documents, including lease amendments, assignments and termination agreements.
  • Represents parties to leases pertaining to the exercise of options to lease commercial real property.
  • Represents REITs holding more than 9 million square feet of retail and mixed-use commercial real estate with lease disputes, evictions, lease enforcement and obtaining and enforcing judgments.
  • Successfully negotiated and drafted a lease amendment enforceable by court judgment in litigation pertaining to commercial tenant’s numerous lease defaults regarding completion of tenant improvements, failure to obtain licenses and permits and failure to pay rent.
  • Successfully negotiated settlement agreement following a tenant’s abandonment of leased property wherein individual lease guarantors paid the landlord an amount equivalent to more than 21 monthly rent payments.
  • Negotiated a lease termination agreement with a national restaurant chain tenant in which the tenant paid a termination fee equivalent to more than one year’s rent.
  • Negotiated a successful settlement agreement on behalf of a regional REIT charged with a breach of lease by its tenant.
  • Represented a commercial landlord’s interests in a dispute with a national retail anchor tenant regarding annual common area maintenance reconciliations.
  • Successfully obtained court-issued prejudgment attachment liens upon real property.

Alison Geddes Named 2026 Nancy Hotchkiss Woman of Impact Award Recipient

Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that shareholder Alison E. Geddes has been named the recipient of CREW Sacramento’s 2026 Nancy Hotchkiss Woman of Impact Award. Named in honor of Nancy Hotchkiss, an attorney and former CREW Sacramento president, the award recognizes a woman who has made a significant impact on Sacramento’s commercial real…

Alison Geddes Joins Board of Directors for BOMA California

Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that Alison Geddes has been elected to the 2025 Board of Directors for Building Owners and Managers Association of California (BOMA California). Alison is a shareholder at Weintraub and member of the Firm’s Real Estate practice group. Her practice focuses on commercial leasing and…

34 Weintraub Attorneys Named to Sactown Magazine’s Top Lawyers 2024

Weintraub Tobin is honored to announce that 34 of its attorneys have been selected to the inaugural Sactown Magazine Top Lawyers 2024 list. Attorneys from Weintraub Tobin are recognized in over a dozen practice areas on this year’s list, including Real Estate, Employment & Labor, Business Litigation, and Estate Planning…

Alison Geddes Joins the Board of Directors for BOMA Sacramento

Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that Alison E. Geddes has been appointed to the 2024 Board of Directors for Building Owners & Managers Association of Sacramento and the Central Valley (BOMA Sacramento). She will serve as Chair of the Government Affairs Committee. Alison is a shareholder at Weintraub Tobin…

<strong>Real Estate Attorney Alison E. Geddes Joins Weintraub Tobin</strong>

Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that Alison E. Geddes has joined the firm as a shareholder in the Real Estate group. She will be based in Weintraub’s Sacramento office. Alison’s practice includes representing property owners in negotiating and drafting commercial lease documents, including leases, amendments, assignments, and termination agreements,…

California’s Commercial Tenant Protection Act (SB 1103): What Property Owners, Managers & Brokers Need to Know

California’s Commercial Tenant Protection Act (SB 1103) now provides commercial tenants who operate small businesses with new legal protections of which property owners, managers and brokers must be aware. Failure to comply with this new law can expose commercial property owners to liability or impact their ability to enforce leases.    Weintraub…

  • When: May 20, 2025 12:00 pm PDT – 01:00 pm PDT
  • Where: Webinar

Alison Geddes Presents for BOMA Sacramento

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, shareholder Alison Geddes presented at The Building Owners & Managers Association of Sacramento and the Central Valley (BOMA Sacramento) March Brunch-N-Learn. She presented on the topic of, SB 1103: What You Need to Know, with an overview of the new legislation and key requirements for…

  • When: Mar 12, 2025 10:00 am PDT – 12:00 pm PDT
  • Where: 980 9th Street, Sacramento 95814

State Bar of California, Real Property Section
Member

Sacramento Bar Association, Real Property Law Section
Member

California Lawyers Association
Member

Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Sacramento
Member
Board of Directors, 2015 – 2020
President, 2018 – 2019

Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) California
Board of Directors Executive Committee, Secretary, 2025 – 2026

Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Sacramento
Member
Board of Directors, Government Affairs Committee, 2024 – 2026

Awards

The Best Lawyers in America®, 2025 – 2027 (Real Estate Law)

Selected to Northern California Super Lawyers list, 2021 – 2026

Sactown Magazine’s Top Lawyers List, 2016 – 2024

Sacramento Business Journal’s Best of the Bar, 2016 – 2019 (program ended in 2019)

BOMA Sacramento President’s Award, 2023

CREW Sacramento’s Member of the Year, 2016