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Maureen F. Gorsen

Partner


Maureen Gorsen is a partner in the firm’s Environmental & Land Development Group, focusing her practice on environmental compliance and land use.  She is the former director of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, where she oversaw the state agency charged with protecting the public health and the environment from toxic harm, cleaning up sites contaminated by toxic substances, ensuring that hazardous waste is managed safely and preventing future pollution.  Ms. Gorsen has also been credited for overseeing California’s Green Chemistry Initiative, one of the single most important environmental programs to be implemented in the next decade.

Prior to her appointment as director of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Ms. Gorsen served as the deputy secretary for law enforcement and general counsel at the California Environmental Protection Agency, where she was responsible for ensuring that the enforcement efforts of Cal/EPA's various boards, departments and local agencies were carried out in a consistent, effective and coordinated manner to protect public health and the environment.

Publications
October 12, 2009
"Creating Incentives to Develop Green Chemistry," The National Law Journal, October 12, 2009.
September/October 2009
"Toy Safety Update: Two New Regulatory Playing Fields, New Sets of Rules, and New Umpires," The Toy Book, September/October 2009.

Maureen F. Gorsen

333 South Hope Street
16th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Phone: 916-498-3305
Fax: 916-441-5449

Education

  • Georgetown University
    (J.D., 1993)
  • Johns Hopkins University
    (M.A., 1992)
  • University of Pennsylvania
    (B.A., 1986)

Admitted to Practice

  • California
  • Virginia