Caleb Bowers

• Represented a defense contractor in winning a dismissal on summary judgment from a complex civil case in California state court, which alleged groundwater contamination from multiple parties’ historical activities.
• Represented an industrial company and landowner in connection with sediment contamination at the Portland Harbor Superfund Site in Oregon.
• Represented one of the nation’s largest wholesale flower distributors in convincing the city of Los Angeles during the COVID-19 pandemic that it is an essential business in time for the client to reopen and capture holiday sales.

Caleb Bowers is a senior associate in Alston & Bird’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group.

Before joining the firm, Caleb served as assistant counsel in the Office of the Chief Counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he assisted with the drafting and interpretation of agency regulations and advised on matters related to the Clean Water Act (CWA), natural resources management, and hydropower operations and maintenance. In addition to environmental matters, Caleb provided counsel on infrastructure cybersecurity issues, including control systems security and data management. He advised on the implementation of a new, agency-specific statutory authority for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations and on the development of program policies and procedures for the deployment of UAS.

Caleb received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he interned for the ACLU of Northern California, Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center, and U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps. He then served as a captain in the U.S. Army JAG Corps. Caleb received his B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.

Bar Admissions

• California
• District of Columbia
• Pennsylvania

Education

• University of California, Berkeley (J.D., 2015)
• The Citadel (B.A., 2012)

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