Representative Experience
Represents business, industrial and individual clients on a wide range of environmental matters involving state and federal environmental laws and regulations, including issues involving contaminated lands, air quality, water quality, underground storage tanks and hazardous substances, such as:

Business mergers and acquisitions, real property transactions and financing, with particular experience in transactions involving contaminated lands and manufacturing operations

Air permits for refineries, manufacturing facilities, power plants, cogeneration units, and foundries

Acquisition and development of power plants and cogeneration units

Governmental enforcement actions, including administrative proceedings

Contaminated property remediation and redevelopment

Federal and state Superfund matters and proceedings involving soil and groundwater remediation, natural resource damages claims, contribution and cost-recovery matters

Environmental insurance coverage disputes and negotiating environmental insurance products

Environmental compliance counseling and permitting, including issues under the CAA, RCRA, CWA and EPCRA

Prior Experience
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, Office of Enforcement and Deputy Regional Administrator’s Office, 1986-1990

Visiting lecturer in Environmental Law at the University of Washington's Institute for Environmental Studies

Memberships and Activities
Washington State Bar Association

Selected to "Rising Stars," Washington Law & Politics, 2003-2004

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 2004

Education
J.D., with honors, University of Washington School of Law, 1993

• Order of the Coif
  
• Associate Editor, Washington Law Review

B.A. in English, cum laude, University of Washington, 1989