Real Estate
"Payment Pitfalls: Obtaining Reimbursement From the Underground Storage Tank Fund," Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 12, 2001; San Francisco Daily Journal, March 14, 2001.
"The Ten Most Expensive ‘Environmental’ Mistakes Business People and Attorneys Can Make – And ‘Tools’ to Solve Them," Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Marin County Bar Association (November 2000))(with P. Hubbard)
"Brownfields Redevelopment for the ‘Single Site,’" The Practicalities of Single Parcel Redevelopment: Returning Sites to Productive Use, Allocating Liabilities, Recovering Cleanup Costs, Environmental Law Section, Bar Association of San Francisco (Sept. 2000).
"Regulatory Compliance," delivered at Real Estate Law for Legal Staff in California, Lorman Education Services (San Francisco, June 2000)
Author, "Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Land Use," Ch. 72, Manaster & Selmi, California Environmental Law and Land Use Practice (Matthew Bender, 1998)
"Annual Summary and Update on Developments in the Law of Valuing Contaminated Properties," delivered at The Impact of Environmental Law on Real Estate and Other Commercial Transactions, American Law Institute-ABA (Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, California, 1988 to 1998)
"Environmental Issues," delivered at Documenting the Deal, 18th Annual Spring Program, Business Law Section, State Bar of California (San Francisco and Los Angeles, 1996)
Special Consultant, "Effect of Antipollution and Hazardous Waste Control Laws on Real Property Transactions," Ch. 304, Treatise, California Real Estate Law (Matthew Bender 1996)
Co-Author, "Minimizing Toxics Liability When Buying Real Property and Businesses," (with John Sanger) Action Guide series (California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1992)
Litigation
Author, "The Point Loma Litigation: From the Court's Decisions," 7th Annual Fall Meeting, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, & Resources (Oct. 1999) (a review of the $5 billion EPA lawsuit against the City of San Diego for violations of the Clean Water Act, and the judicial resolution)
Author, "1998 Review of Developments in Private Hazardous Waste Litigation," 1998 California Environmental Law Reporter 153 (Issue No. 7, Matthew Bender, July 1998)
"Trends in Private Hazardous Waste Litigation, 1997," delivered at the ABA’s 27th Annual Keystone Environmental Conference (Keystone, Colorado March 1998)
"Defense Strategies," delivered at Environmental Citizen Suits, Theories, Defense, and Recent Developments (Bar Association of San Francisco, 1997)
Author, "Toxic Torts and the Private Recovery of Response Costs Under CERCLA," Vol. 3, Natural Resources & Environment (ABA 1988)
Regulatory Compliance
Author, "Managing and Selling Safety in Your Organization -- The Legal Aspects of Compliance and Potential Legal Liability" (The Arnold Law Practice 2000)
Co-Author, "California’s Prop. 65: Vigilante Justice or Toxics Regulation Without a Bureaucracy?" (with M. Bertinetti), delivered at the 5th Annual program, Environmental Sciences: A Primer, American Bar Association (San Francisco, California 1996)
"Annual Summary and Update of Environmental Disclosure & Reporting Requirements," delivered at The Impact of Environmental Law on Real Estate and Other Commercial Transactions, American Law Institute-ABA (Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, California, 1988 to 1998)
Co-author, "An Overview of Regulatory Compliance and Legal Liability Issues," Essentials of Safety & Health Management (with R. Romberg, P. Lyon, & S. Hull) (R.Lack, ed., CRC Publishers, 1996).
Author (with C. Coleman, C. Stern), "Clean Air Act Update," Ch. 1, 1996 Wiley Environmental Law Update (John Wiley & Sons)
"Compliance Auditing: Not a ‘Safe Harbor’ But a "Course Out of Harms Way,’" delivered at Environmental Compliance, etc., (Practicing Law Institute, San Francisco, 1992).
Professional Responsibility
Co-Author, "Law Firms May be Liable for Deficient ‘Due Diligence,’" Corporate Counsel Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1, Section of Environment, Energy & Resources, ABA (with K. Lesniak, 2000)
Past Employment
The Arnold Law Practice, 1998 to present
Member, Severson & Werson, San Francisco 1991-1997
(Chair, Environmental Practice Group)
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Civil Division, Central District of California (Los Angeles), 1978-1987
(Chief Trial Attorney, Civil Division, 1985-1987)
U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, 1974-1978
U.S. Department of the Interior, 1972-1974
National:
Council Member, Section of Environment, Energy & Resources, American Bar Association (Jan. 2001)
Chair, Superfund & Hazardous Waste Committee (1200 members), ABA (1996-1998)
Co-Chair, Annual Meeting, Section of Environment, Energy & Resources (11,000 members), ABA (1999)
Co-Chair and Chair, Annual RCRA/CERCLA and Private Litigation Update, Washington, D.C.,
Solid & Hazardous Waste Committee, Section of Environment, etc., ABA (1988-1996)
Chair, Hard Minerals Committee, Section of Natural Resources Law, ABA (1983-1984)
Vice-Chair, Solid & Hazardous Waste Committee, Section of Environment, etc., ABA (1985-1996)
Vice-Chair, Corporate Counsel Committee, Section of Environment, etc., ABA (1998 to present)
Chair, Phonenite, Claremont McKenna College Alumni Association (1999)
California:
Co-Chair, Environmental Law Section, Bar Association of San Francisco (1992-1995)
Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, East Bay Services to the Developmentally Disabled, Inc.
Member (founding), Executive Committee, Environmental Law Section, Los Angeles County Bar Association (1986-1987)
Member (founding), Executive Committee, Environmental Law Section, BASF (1989 to present)
Member, Board of Contributing Editors, California Environmental Law Reporter (1991 to present)
Member, Board of Contributing Editors, California Real Estate Reporter (1989 to present)
Award of Merit, Environmental Law Section, Bar Association of San Francisco, Nov. 2000
Res Publica Society, Claremont McKenna College, 1999
Member in Charge, Environmental Practice Group, Severson & Werson, 1991-1997
Letter of Commendation, California State Director, Bureau of Land Management, 1987
Chief Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Office of the U.S. Attorney, C.D. California, 198
Special Commendation, Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys, 1986
Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, 1985 Commendation, U.S. Air Force Space Division, 1985
Commendation for Reducing Wildlands Chainsaw Fires, U.S. Forest Service, 1984
Certificate of Commendation, Commander Marine Corps Air Bases Western Area, 1983
Letter of Commendation, Secretary of the Navy, 1983
