• Environmental Law
• Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation
• Business Litigation
• Class Actions
• Real Estate and Land Use Litigation

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Member, American Bar Association (Litigation and Environment, Energy and Resources Sections)
• Member, State Bar of California (Litigation and Environmental Law Sections)
• Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association (Co-Chair of Condemnation and Land Valuation Committee, Land Use Planning and Environmental Law Subsection; Member, Environmental Law, Litigation, Real Property, and Labor and Employment Law Sections)
• Member, California Redevelopment Association (Brownfields Committee 1999-2003)
• Member, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (Board of Governors, 1985-1988 and 1993-1997; Chair, Trial Lawyers Section (1987-1988))

EDUCATION

• University of Texas (J.D., cum laude, 1976). Order of the Coif. Note and Comment Editor, Texas Law Review (1975-1976).
• University of Houston (B.A., magna cum laude, 1972). Mortar Board.

NOTEWORTHY EXPERIENCE

• Lead trial counsel in numerous business, class action, real estate and land use, unfair competition, trade secret, environmental, eminent domain and inverse condemnation cases
• Lead trial counsel, City of Monterey Park v. Aerojet General Corp., et al., United States District Court, Central District of California Case No. CV 02-5909 (multi-party environmental litigation including claims of unfair competition under Business & Professions Code § 17200)
• Represented Procter & Gamble, Piper Aircraft, and other clients in obtaining dismissals of consumer class action litigation in State and Federal Court
• Lead trial counsel in class action suits brought by recipients of federal housing benefits
• Trial and appellate counsel in mass toxic tort and multi-party environmental litigation
• Trial counsel in mass tort litigation brought against international company, removed from State to Federal Court
• Lead trial and appellate counsel in NJD, Ltd. v. City of San Dimas (2003) 110 Cal.App.4th 1428 (regulatory inverse condemnation, Federal Civil Rights Act)
• Trial counsel for Lockheed in Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority v. Lockheed Martin Corp. (eminent domain and environmental)
• Trial and appellate counsel in Lake Nacimiento Ranch Co. v. County of San Luis Obispo (9th Cir. 1988) 841 F.2d 872 (regulatory inverse condemnation)

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Lecturer, American Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Counsel for Urban Economic Development, California Redevelopment Association

ADMISSIONS

• Admitted, California
• Admitted, Texas (inactive)
• Admitted, District of Columbia (inactive)
• Admitted, United States Supreme Court
• Admitted, All California Federal Courts