Candidate for
Councilmember; City of Atascadero

About Len Colamarino

Len Colamarino is a resident of Atascadero. After living here for some three years, Len became active in civic affairs due to his growing concern about the problems plaguing Atascadero's commercial and government sectors. While he will be happy in Atascadero regardless of what is done about those problems, Len started the UpGrade Atascadero website, http://upgradeatascadero.org/, on the premise that it will be a service and benefit for all parties concerned if Atascadero's commercial and governmental failings can be remedied.

Len's professional background is as a lawyer. He had a national and international business practice based in New York City for almost thirty years, with clients in the Los Angeles and Bay Areas, among other places.

After receiving a Juris Doctor degree in 1976 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where earned a position as a staff editor of the Law Review, Len went to work at a large Wall Street law firm. Upon developing his own corporate clientele in the early 1980s, Len started a corporate law firm with two other partners. That firm, Colamarino & Sohns, LLP, located in Midtown Manhattan across from St. Patrick's Cathedral, at 645 Fifth Avenue, was where he based his practice until he relocated to California at the end of 2004. Throughout those years, Len enjoyed a challenging general business practice which embraced, among other things, dispute resolution, including litigation and arbitration, corporate governance, finance, drafting and negotiating of contracts for many kinds of transactions and international law. His practice also acquainted Len with numerous industries and exposed him to various kinds of businesses.

Before attending law school, Len majored in economics, and minored in political science and history, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his B.A. in 1973, earning highest honors and election to Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Epsilon (an honorary economics fraternity).

Len has served as a director of numerous corporations, and continues to serve as a director, as well as a member of management and legal officer, for several corporations in which he has an interest as a principal, none of which are located in San Luis Obispo County.

Len was born in Rochester, New York, in 1951. He is married to Katrin Colamarino, who maintains a consulting practice directed at non-profit organizations, as well as a busy schedule of local volunteer activity. Len is also an avid bicyclist, and is an enthusiastic participant in numerous local bicycling events.