James Arnold
![]() The Arnold Law Practice
San Francisco Office One Sansome Street, Suite 3500 San Francisco, CA 94104 East Bay Office 3685 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 331 Lafayette, CA 94549 Phone: 925-284-8887 Fax: 925-284-1387 www.arnoldlp.com jarnold@arnoldlp.com LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile Our focus is environmental and real property litigation, counseling, and regulatory compliance. James R. Arnold established The Arnold Law Practice after service with the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. Mr. Arnold entered private practice in San Francisco in 1987, and established The Arnold Law Practice in 1998. We represent companies, private individuals, and nonprofit organizations. Our attorneys try cases, appear before state and federal regulatory agencies, and counsel clients on contracts, leases, compliance and government orders, easements, and other transactions that involve environmental and related laws. With decades of experience in the federal and California laws, we represent clients with claims involving the California Land Recycling and Reuse Act, the clean air and clean water laws, Proposition 65, CEQA and NEPA, and the complex network of hazardous waste laws, such as CERCLA (“Superfund”), RCRA, TSCA, and similar California laws. We focus on redevelopment and re-use of contaminated properties, called "brownfields." We advise clients on real property transactions, such as conducting environmental due diligence and apportioning environmental liability in real estate contracts. We also represent clients in disputes as to title, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, property damages due to contamination, , and roads and other real estate legal issues. We advise clients on such matters as complying with new requirements for California’s “climate change” laws and regulations, post-consumer and post-industrial recycled content rules, and energy efficiency retro-fitting. Because of our continuing commitment to litigation, claims, transactions, and regulatory compliance, we also help clients with such matters as vapor intrusion into homes and businesses,veterinary treatments and their registration/use in California, wetlands determinations and conservation banks, food regulations, bankruptcy issues, metal finishing, trap and skeet ranges, environmental insurance, air pollution control districts, REITS, grocery stores, shipyards, sewer plant redevelopment, acid mine drainage, asbestos and asbestos containing materials (ACM), pesticides, dry-cleaners, food processing, commercial fishing, sonar and marine mammals, adhesives, fashion accessories, and other manufacturing, products, goods and services. The attorneys at The Arnold Law Practice also contribute to educating the legal community and the general public about environmental law issues. Our attorneys teach and write articles about due diligence, historical road access law in California, recent developments in brownfields and Superfund law, the elements of contracts with environmental consultants, and the ethical issues with representation by attorneys and by others. Our attorneys support programs of the Environmental Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Contra Costa Bar Association, the Sonoma County Bar Association, and the Environmental and Real Estate Sections of the California Bar. We have also been active with the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy & Resources, and support the ABA’s Sections of Litigation and Real Property. The Arnold Law Practice engages attorneys when specialized legal issues such as bankruptcy, estates and probate law, corporate law, personal injury, etc., arise in the context of environmental law and real estate law issues. |
Areas of Practice:
Environmental Law • Brownfields Redevelopment • Underground Storage Tanks • Air Quality • Inverse Condemnation • Climate Change • Land Use Litigation • Environmental Cleanup • Sustainability • Air Pollution • Clean Air Act • Water Quality • Water Pollution • Clean Water Act • Groundwater Contamination • Environmental Insurance • Real Estate Litigation • Quiet Title • Real Estate Sales • Eminent Domain • Real Estate • Brownfields Insurance Coverage • Environmental Cost Recovery • Zoning Law • Federal Civil Litigation • Coatings Technology • Wetlands Protection • UST Fund • Metal Finishing • Wastewater Permits • Environmental Mediation • Industrial Permits • Dry Cleaner Clean Ups • Gun range land use and Clean Ups • Real Estate Fraud Litigation • Public Land Law Bar Admissions: California U.S. District Courts in California Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. Court of Federal Claims |