Energy
- Representing one of the largest global companies and the second largest oil company in the United States by revenue in legal challenges to California’s de facto ban on well stimulation treatment operations.
- Representing an oil and gas company responsibly developing resources in the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA in several litigation matters, both in state and federal courts, against California agencies and nongovernmental entities concerning administrative actions, CEQA challenges, and recently enacted legislation seeking to prevent the company’s efforts to resume the flow oil and gas through a major pipeline system delivering oil and gas to California refineries.
- Representing oil and gas exploration and production companies in legal challenges to the City of Los Angeles Oil and Gas Drilling Ordinance and County of Los Angeles Oil and Gas Drilling Ordinance, which both immediately ban new oil and gas extraction activities and require the removal of existing operations after an amortization period in their respective jurisdictions.
- Providing regulatory and litigation advice for a natural gas, oil exploration, and production company, which produces nearly 25% of California’s oil and natural gas.
Land Use
- 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, valued at over $4 billion, on portions of the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro that are now owned by the county and located within the City of Irvine.
Toxic Tort, Chemical Exposures, and Cost Recovery
- Defending a real estate development company in a mass tort action involving more than 160 plaintiffs claiming personal injuries and property damage arising from alleged releases of hazardous particulates during construction at one of the largest mixed-use developments in Los Angeles County.
- Counsel for the largest U.S. retail corporation, and largest company worldwide by revenue, defending the company against dozens of claims involving alleged exposures to heavy metals, bisphenol-A (BPA), phthalates, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and other Proposition 65-listed chemicals.
- Representing a real estate developer in one of the largest ongoing toxic tort actions pending in federal district court, seeking hundreds of millions of dollars for damages against the federal government and its contractor resulting from the botched radiological cleanup of a former naval shipyard.
- Representing a real estate developer in a putative class action and individual lawsuits 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 major aerospace company in an action brought by the City of Riverside for alleged TCE and perchlorate contamination in its water supply system allegedly stemming from the Rockets, Fireworks and Flares Superfund site in Rialto, CA.
- Represented one of the largest global companies and the second largest oil company in the United States by revenue in an action involving allegations of occupational exposure to benzene.
- Represented one of the largest producers and distributors of maintenance and cleaning solutions in multiple actions involving allegations of occupational exposure to benzene, each resulting in dismissals for waiver of costs.