John H. Blake is a real estate, land use, and litigation lawyer with thirty-five years' experience. 

He is a former Mayor and Councilmember of the Town of Woodside. 

Mr. Blake is licensed to practice in California, including all Federal courts in California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  He received his law degree in 1976 from Santa Clara University. 

To sharpen and maintain his trial skills, he completed the Trial Advocacy Program at Hastings College of the Law in 1979, the Western Trial Advocacy Institute in 2000, workshops at the National Criminal Defense College in 2001 and 2004, graduated from Trial Lawyers College in 2009 and completed graduate programs there in 2010 and 2011. 

Mr. Blake handles transactions and litigation involving real estate, public and private land use, construction and eminent domain; as well as business, commercial, bankruptcy and other litigation. 

In 2003, he won a unanimous California Supreme Court victory preventing the use of marital dissolution (divorce) settlements to conceal assets from creditors.