Senior Partner

Steve Haskins

Senior attorney Steve Haskins focuses on real estate and business law matters and is also a licensed California Real Estate Broker. Steve graduated from the University of California San Diego and thereafter studied at the Chateau Laval French Language School in Antibes France. He went on to graduate from University of California Hastings College of the Law  San Francisco in 1989. Steve worked as an associate with the San Francisco firm of Bronson Bronson & McKinnon and later with San Diego’s Nugent & Newnham before founding Haskins & Associates, APC with his sister, lawyer Elena DuCharme, in 1995.  He obtained his real estate broker license in 1992.

Steve’s lifelong passion for historic preservation and the environment spurred him into community and political leadership at an early age.   At age 16 he became the youngest board member of the Town Council in his hometown of La Jolla. There he led a movement to preserve La Jolla’s unique character.  

When he returned to San Diego after law school, Steve moved to Imperial Beach, where he was elected City Councilman in 1992 and Deputy Mayor in 1995.  He also served as a Director of the Metropolitan Transit Development Board (MTDB) of San Diego from 1992 to 1994, a Director of the Metropolitan Wastewater Authority from 1994 to 1995, and as a Member of the Assessment Appeals Board for San Diego County from 1997 to 1999. Steve was elected once again as a board member of the La Jolla Town Council in March 2003 becoming Treasurer in 2004 and serving as President of the Council from 2014 to 2016.