Environmental Law

AREAS OF PRACTICE:

Environmental Law -- Including "Brownfields," Superfund and air and water quality laws, Prop. 65 and insurance recovery for policyholders.

Real Estate and Land Use Litigation -- Specific performance, quiet title, CEQA, eminent domain, zoning variances, and public lands and resources.

Toxics – Lead poisoning, underground tanks, mold, and OSHA.

Malpractice Law – Environmental consultants and attorneys.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENT MATTERS:

Food processing companies - compliance with California waste discharge requirements, cleanup of "brownfields" site, including representation with administrative oversight agencies, claims on CGL insurance policies, UST Fund reimbursement

Owners and operators of current and former gasoline station sites - claims for cleanup costs against third parties, representation with administrative oversight agencies, UST Fund recoveries.

Medical products company, cosmetics company, adhesives company, computer company – compliance with Prop. 65 requirements, representation with administrative air quality agencies

Social services organization – compliance with "brownfields" cleanup requirements, including representation with administrative oversight agencies

Property owners – representation and counseling in zoning variances, CEQA, land use, specific performance, loan documentation, UST requirements, sewage district law, claims to public lands, US government land exchanges, easements, access rights, rights of way, dedications and grants, trespassing claims (lead paint dust, MTBE, solvents, petroleum)

Business owners – representation in multi-defendant litigation with claims of groundwater pollution by drycleaning practices, USTs, waste disposal practices, OSHA penalty issues, claims against environmental consultants as to site audits, Fish & Game civil penalty proceedings, condemnation of portions of business for road expansion, failure of seller to disclose buried contamination, compliance with air pollution control laws, civil penalties from air quality management districts, spill response claims, toxics reporting and disclosure requirements, UST closure laws

Environmental consultants – representation against claims as to process audits, preparation of form agreements, counseling on reporting and disclosure requirements

[Note: Recent matters include legal counseling, representation before governmental agencies, and litigation with government and private parties in state and federal courts in northern California]”