Sarine A. Abrahamian is a Managing Partner at Orbach Huff & Henderson and has more than twenty years of experience representing public agencies, including K–12 and community college districts statewide on complex real estate and public agency matters. Her practice focuses on public agency real property acquisition, disposition, and leasing, as well as school consolidation, closure, and asset management and monetization, with a particular emphasis on public-private development projects.
Sarine regularly counsels school boards and board-appointed committees on governance, Brown Act compliance, procurement, and related facilities and business matters and is frequently involved in matters requiring strategic navigation of statutory requirements, public process, and stakeholder interests.
She has substantial trial and arbitration experience, including a unanimous jury verdict for a K–12 school district in an eminent domain action and a substantial arbitration award for a community college district in a construction dispute. Sarine has also successfully represented school districts in the California Court of Appeal.
Sarine has authored and co-authored real property, eminent domain, and construction training materials and is a frequent speaker at trade conferences and school facilities events, including programs hosted by the Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH), California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO), California Association of Black School Educators (CABSE), and the California School Boards Association (CSBA). She also provides MCLE training, including for clients’ in-house general counsel.
Sarine is admitted to practice in all California State courts and before the United States District Court for the Central District of California. She is also active in community organizations and mentors young people pursuing legal careers.
Sarine grew up in Sierra Leone, West Africa and is of Armenian descent. She is fluent in Armenian and Krio (Sierra Leonean dialect).
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