Industry focus
How I represent clients at Schwabe
My practice centers on helping clients with environmental legal concerns. I handle issues related to complex cleanup and remediation activities, assist clients with environmental litigation, and help them resolve compliance disputes with regulatory agencies.
Having also earned an MBA, I can provide insights on transactional work, conduct environmental due diligence, and recognize issues that might affect my clients’ operations.
Experience
- Represented multiple potentially responsible parties at the Portland Harbor Superfund Site in a confidential allocation process to allocate responsibility for costs related to complex sediment cleanup
- Counseled and represented businesses in litigation and negotiation with regulatory agencies regarding compliance with federal statutes, such as CERCLA and RCRA, and related state laws
- Defended a chemical products distributor in litigation regarding a groundwater contamination site that involved multiple responsible parties
- Drafted an appeal on behalf of a multinational company to contest a carbon intensity baseline provided by the Washington State Department of Ecology
- Advised municipalities with combined sewer systems on compliance regulations regarding National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permits
- Represented a Washington landowner/lessor in Model Toxics Control Act cleanup action and a lawsuit that involved soil contamination from retail fuel operations
- Represented various commercial property owners on land use issues, such as wetland-related nuisances
- Advised municipalities with combined sewer systems on compliance regulations related to National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permits
Education
- Boston College Law School, Juris Doctor (2018)
- Boston College, Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Master of Business Administration, (2018)
- Lewis & Clark, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science (2014)
Admissions
- Oregon State Courts
- Washington State Courts
Memberships
- Oregon State Bar, Environmental & Natural Resource Section, Executive Committee Board Member
Additional Publications
- “EPA’s first regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft—Is it the emperor’s new clothes?” American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources: Trends, Vol. 53, No. 3 (January/February 2022) (co-author with Norman A. Dupont of Ring Bender LLP)
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