Career Highlights

• Representing cities in litigation involving public trust lands, eminent domain, takings, and constitutional claims.
• Serving as general counsel to land trusts, advising on mitigation, mitigation banking, and conservation easements.
• Providing guidance on water quality issues to the Mendocino City Community Services District, which provides groundwater and wastewater management services to the residents of Mendocino.
• Represented Regional Water Quality Control Boards (Regional Boards) across the state in administrative enforcement proceedings against public entities, individuals, and businesses for water quality violations under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, Clean Water Act, and related federal and state permits. Enforcement work included investigation and analysis of potential violations, negotiation of settlements, preparation of evidence and legal briefs for administrative proceedings, and representation of Regional Boards at hearings.
• Negotiated settlement agreement with Desert Water Agency to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act and Sanitary Sewer Systems Waste Discharge Requirements stemming from a sanitary sewer overflow. The violation was resolved for a penalty of $181,947 and included a supplemental environmental project to improve water quality through installation of a flow meter monitoring and sampling box. (In the Matter of: Desert Water Agency, Administrative Civil Liability Order R7-2022-0012.)

Community Service, Publications, and Recognitions

• Endorsements Committee, South Asian Bar Association of Northern California.
• State Water Board Announces Plan to Investigate PFAS, Global St. (2019).
• How Owners Should Prepare for PFAS Investigation, Global St. (2019).
• Co-author, Recent Developments in Toxic Torts and Environmental Law, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Law Journal (Winter 2016 and Winter 2017)

Bar Memberships

Member of the Bars of the State of California and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Education

University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif, summa cum laude

University of Illinois, Master of Urban Planning

University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Urban Studies, Minor, Architecture

About Me

I enjoy going on adventures with my family and watching films.