Career Highlights

• Successfully defending the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s landmark Warehouse Indirect Source Rule against preemption challenges in federal district court.
• Successfully defending the County of Alameda in a series of lawsuits concerning the abatement of illegal billboards. Citizens for Free Speech, LLC, et al. v. County of Alameda, 953 F.3d 655 (9th Cir. 2020); Citizens for Free Speech, LLC, et al. v. County of Alameda, 338 F. Supp. 3d 995 (N.D. Cal. 2018).
• Successfully defending an ordinance prohibiting and phasing out the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke in the City of Richmond from a challenge under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); helping to settle five related federal lawsuits.
• Prior to law school, serving as a Senior Plan Manager at the New York City Office of Emergency Management and as a Planning Section Chief in the City’s Emergency Operations Center during the response to Hurricane Sandy.

Bar Memberships

Member, State Bar of California, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and US District Courts for the Central, Eastern, and Northern Districts of California.

Education

Stanford Law School, JD, 2016

Brown University, BA, 2008

Clerkship: Honorable Howard R. Lloyd, Northern District of California

About Me

I’m a father of two, an amateur guitarist and pianist, and an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy.