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Practice Areas
Experience
Chris' practice is focused on all aspects of environmental
law. She represents clients in environmental litigation
involving cost recovery claims, CERCLA, Clean Water
Act, strict liability, negligence and nuisance causes
of action and real estate toxic tort cases. She also
advises on compliance issues, representing clients before
various government regulatory agencies, including the
EPA, DTSC, and the RWQCB.
For clients selling, acquiring or developing contaminated
real property, Chris provides legal advice and oversight
of environmental issues, including evaluating and directing
environmental site investigations and the implementation
of remedial action plans, negotiating remediation standards
with environmental regulators, and preparing environmental
indemnity provisions. She also represents clients in
brownsfield real estate transactions under the Polanco
Act and AB 389, the California Land Use and Revitalization
Act. In addition, she represents parties in obtaining
defense and insurance coverage for environmental claims
under property and liability insurance policies.
Representative
Matters
- Represented buyers, sellers and lessors/lessees
in negotiating environmental issues in multi-million
dollar development projects for commercial, residential
and undeveloped sites.
- Represented plaintiffs in multi-million dollar cost
recovery actions.
- Represented defendants in several dry cleaning "perc"
cases in the Central Valley.
Admissions
- State Bar of California
- Federal District Court (Northern, Central and Eastern
Districts of California) and Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals
Affiliations
- Alameda County Bar Association
- Board of Directors, East Bay Diversity Bar
Coalition
- Alameda County Bar Foundation; Board of Directors,
1991 to 1993
- Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay
Area
- Board of Directors, 2005 to present
- Member, 1982 to present
- Judicial Advisory Committee, Senator Barbara Boxer
- Evaluated potential candidates for Federal
Judiciary; 1996 to 1998
- Legal Assistance for Seniors
- President, 1997; Board of directors; member,
1994 to 2000
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- State Bar of California
- Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission, evaluated
Governor's nominees for appointment to the State
Judiciary; 1992 to 1994
- Conference of Delegates; Executive Committee,
1989 to 1991
- University of California, Hastings Alumni Association
- Board of Governors, 2008 –2011
Speaking
- "WorkLife Law Panel Discussion” panelist,
University of California, Hastings College of the
Law, Thursday, June 7, 2008
- Mentoring Relationships Panel, California Minority
Counsel Program, 16th Annual Business Development
Conference, October, 2005
Awards
- Northern California Super Lawyer 2004, 2005, and
2006, Environmental, Law & Politics and San Francisco
Magazine
Education
- University of California, San Francisco, Hastings
College of the Law; J.D. (1982)
- University of California, Berkeley; B.S., Business
Administration (1979)
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