Litigation
- Proposition 65 counsel for the nation’s largest retail corporation and largest company worldwide by revenue. The company has over 10,500 stores and clubs in 24 countries.
- Counsel for one of North America’s largest food companies, defending the company in all Proposition 65 cases.
- Defending a real estate developer in a mass tort action involving more than 150 plaintiffs asserting personal injuries and property damage arising from alleged releases of hazardous particulates during construction.
- Defending a real estate developer in a putative class action by over 9,500 community members seeking personal injury and property damage from the alleged failure to disclose the presence of radioactive substances at a former naval shipyard that is the subject of San Francisco’s largest development project in a century.
- Representing a Fortune 100 multinational oil and gas corporation and one of the largest public companies worldwide in legal challenges to California’s de facto ban on well stimulation treatment operations.
- Representing a trade association of petroleum exploration, production, refining, and transportation companies in California Environmental Quality Act challenges to anti-oil and gas provisions in the Ventura County General Plan Update.
- Representing oil and gas exploration and production companies in legal challenges to the City of Los Angeles Oil and Gas Drilling Ordinance, which immediately bans new oil and gas extraction activities and requires the removal of existing operations after an amortization period.
- Defended one of the world’s largest private sector energy companies against lawsuits brought by multiple California municipalities, alleging claims for public and private nuisance, product liability, and deceptive sales – attempting to shift liability for national and international climate change policy choices onto energy producers. The client was dismissed from the lawsuits with prejudice.
- Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a real estate developer in litigation challenging the County of Orange’s decision to approve two mixed-use projects (commercial and residential) valued at over $4 billion on portions of the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro now owned by the County and located within the City of Irvine.
- Represented a mining company in the adjudication of the Antelope Valley Groundwater Basin, the largest groundwater pumping rights case in California history.