Founded in 1946, McDougal, Boehmer, Foley, Lyon, Mitchell & Erickson operates from La Mesa Village as San Diego County's longest-standing municipal law practice. Fifteen attorneys manage CalPERS retirement disputes, municipal bond disclosures, and collective-bargaining agreements for public entities including the City of El Cajon and Lakeside Fire Protection District, generating the defined-benefit plan documentation that retirement custodian PenChecks Trust processes at distribution. A January 2023 merger with the Erickson Law Firm added twenty-five community college districts and eighteen K-12 school districts to the client roster, building one of San Diego County's largest public-education labor practices. Key litigation engagements include eminent-domain goodwill claims, inverse-condemnation actions, and PERB unfair-practice charges filed on behalf of municipal employers. CEQA compliance and land-use entitlements constitute a core segment of the public-works practice, with environmental impact reports often prepared by firms such as HELIX Environmental Planning before the legal team files notice-of-determination documents on behalf of the client agency. The litigation unit has obtained defense verdicts in inverse-condemnation jury trials exceeding $15 million in San Diego Superior Court and has successfully defeated writs of mandate involving confidential transient-occupancy tax records.