Olivia Dopler
Co-Founder and Partner
Olivia Dopler is a co-founder and partner at LDY Law, PC. She focuses on representing property owners and other landlords in residential and commercial landlord-tenant disputes across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her work includes Ellis Act evictions, owner move-in evictions, fault-based evictions, buyout negotiations, rent board mediations and arbitrations, court proceedings, rent increases, fair housing compliance, and other issues that arise throughout the landlord-tenant relationship. She has tried cases in civil court, handled complex local matters shaped by San Francisco’s ordinance environment, and advised clients through both contested and negotiated resolutions.
What She Handles
- Residential landlord-tenant disputes
- Commercial landlord-tenant disputes
- Ellis Act evictions
- Owner move-in evictions
- Fault-based evictions
- Tenant buyout negotiations
- Rent Board mediations and arbitrations
- Rent increases and related landlord and property owner counseling
- Fair housing compliance issues
- Civil-court litigation and negotiated resolutions
Olivia dopler at LDY Law
Olivia’s work sits at the center of the firm’s San Francisco landlord-side positioning. She combines courtroom experience, Rent Board familiarity, and practical counseling in a local ordinance environment that often makes a simple landlord issue much more technical than it first appears.
Education
Olivia earned her B.A. in political science from the University of California, Davis, where she graduated with highest honors and received the Clyde Jacobs and Larry Peterman Distinguished Scholar Award. She earned her J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, where she served as an associate editor on the Golden Gate University Law Review.
Admissions and Recognition
Olivia is a member of the State Bar of California. She was named to the Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars list from 2018 through 2023.
Speaking Engagements
- Professional Property Management Association of San Francisco: July 2026
- Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute: May 2026
- Professional Property Management Association of San Francisco: Spring 2026, December 2025
- CEB Real Estate Case Law Update for October 2024
- Beverly Hills Bar Association Case Update, September 2024
- CEB Real Estate Case Law Update: July 2024
- CEB Real Estate Case Law Update: June 2024
- CEB Real Estate Case Law Update: May 2024
- CEB Real Estate Case Law Update: April 2024
- CEB Real Estate Case Law Update: March 2024
- CEB Real Estate Case Law Update: February 2024
- “What’s Hot in Landlord/Tenant Law,” MCLE Program, CEB – California, August 2, 2022
- Strategies for Collecting on Judgments, The Bar Association of San Francisco, March 29, 2022
- Navigating COVID-19 Issues: SB 91 Extension of COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, California Lawyers Association, April 13, 2021
- SB 91: Extension of COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, California Lawyers Association, April 13, 2021
- SB 91: Examined and Explained, The Bar Association of San Francisco, April 8, 2021
- Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute, Virtual Legal Panel, March 9, 2021
- Overview of California’s COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, Contra Costa County Bar Association, February 19, 2021
- “Dos and Don’ts for Landlords During COVID-19,” Chinese Real Estate Association of America, Inc., April 24, 2020
- Ensuring Compliance with AB 1482: California’s New Statewide Rent and Eviction Control Laws, California Lawyers Association, April 24, 2020
- Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute, Virtual Legal Panel, May 12, 2020
- “Ensuring Compliance with Emerging Rent Control Laws,” California Lawyers Association Real Property Law Section’s 38th Annual Real Property Spring Conference, May 5, 2019
Publications
- “Appeals Court Upholds SF Law Prohibiting Landlords From Discriminating Against Section 8 Tenants”, Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute, Vol. 20, No. 6, June 2018