Experience

• Represent buyers and sellers in complex real estate transactions involving contaminated properties, including advising clients on the allocation and management of liability for related environmental remediation costs.
• Manage complex environmental remediation projects and advise clients on negotiating with governmental agencies to ensure responsiveness to regulatory issues.
• Represent developers and property owners in dispute resolution and litigation before state and federal courts in cost recovery and cost allocation actions.
• Represent clients in litigation and alternative dispute resolution regarding liabilities resulting from environmental cleanup costs arising under CERCLA, including complex sediment sites.
• Represent landowners in complex real estate transactions for parcels adjacent to Superfund sites, including allocating liabilities, navigating historical insurance coverage issues and determining future cost responsibility.
• Advise clients on managing risk and potential liability resulting from federal hazardous waste cleanup laws, including CERCLA, RCRA and MTCA.
• Represent property owners and developers in potential liabilities resulting from natural resource damage assessments at hazardous waste sites, as well as negotiations with NOAA to minimize natural resource damage assessments.
• Advise clients regarding insurance coverage issues related to potential environmental liability.
• Advise bankruptcy and receivership trustees on divesting trust assets burdened with potential environmental liabilities.

Honors & Activities

Professional Honors & Activities

• Listed among Rising Stars (Environmental, Real Estate), Washington Super Lawyers^®, 2018–2020

Civic Activities

• Member, Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Seattle & Sound, 2014-present
• Board of Directors, Seattle 2030 District, 2019
• Member, Junior League of Seattle, 2014–2017
• Board of Directors, Center for Children and Youth Justice, 2012–2015
• Member, Vanderbilt Law School Alumni Admissions Program

Insights & Presentations

• “Model Toxics Control Act Case Law Update,” Law Seminars International, Oct. 2019
• “Partnering Attorneys and Consultants – Where Science and the Law Meet,” NEBC, Northwest Remediation Conference, Oct. 2019
• “Southern Resident Killer Whale Panel,” 2019 Environmental and Law Use Law Section Midyear Meeting & Conference (co-chair), Washington State Bar Association, May 2019
• “Developing Contaminated and Blighted Properties in Washington,” Case Studies: South Lake Union, Ballard and Fremont, The Seminar Group, Aug. 2018
• “Special Consideration in Project Development Planning,” 2017 Environmental and Law Use Law Section Midyear Meeting & Conference, Washington State Bar Association, May 2017
• “Impact of EPA’s New Environmental Justice Regulatory Analysis on Remedies at Sediment Sites,” Ninth International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sediments, Battelle Institute, Jan. 2017
• “The Role of Environmental Forensics,” 2016 Northwest Remediation Conference, Oct. 2016
• “Ethical Considerations for Multi-Party Representation at Aquatic Cleanup Sites,” 2016 Environmental and Land Use Law Section Midyear Meeting & Conference, Washington State Bar Association, May 2016
• “Triggering the Insurer’s Duty to Defend for MTCA Claims: Gull Industries, Inc. v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company” (co-author), Washington State Bar Association Environmental & Land Use Law Section Newsletter, Volume 41 Number 1, Feb. 2015
• “A Review of EPA’s First Environmental Justice Analysis at a CERCLA Site,” American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 1, Nov. 2014
• “A Review of EPA’s First Environmental Justice Analysis in Conjunction with a CERCLA Remediation Plan” (author), American Bar Association, Section of Environmental, Energy and Resources, 43rd Spring Conference, March 2014
• “Without Fear or Favor in 2011: A New Decade of Challenges to Judicial Independence and Accountability,” 2011 Def. Res. Inst. 12

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