|
James L. Markman is a shareholder in
the Public Law Department and Water Rights and Water Law Practice
Group at Richards, Watson & Gershon with more than 30 years
of experience representing local public agencies. Mr. Markman is
the Chair of the Water Rights and Water Law Practice Group and serves
on the Firm's Management Committee.
Mr. Markman specializes in Water Rights and Water Law, Litigation,
Public Agency and Municipal Law Litigation, Public Agency and Municipal
Law and Redevelopment.
Mr. Markman serves as Special Counsel for the California Domestic
Water Company with regards to a variety of water law issues, including
water quality legislation, ground leases and construction contract
issues. In addition, Mr. Markman is General Counsel for the Mission
Springs Water District and Special Counsel for the Nipomo Community
Services District, City of Upland, City of Corona and Walnut Valley
Water Districts in reference to groundwater basin management and
adjudication issues. Mr. Markman currently represents Brea, Buena Park, La Mirada,
Rancho Cucamonga, and Whittier Redevelopment Agencies as Agency
Counsel. He also represents the Cities of Brea, La Mirada and Rancho
Cucamonga as City Attorney.
Mr. Markman has been involved in virtually every significant groundwater
adjudication which has occurred commencing in 1969, including the
Chino Basin, Cummings Basin, Mojave River Basin, Six Basins, Upper
San Gabriel and the ongoing Santa Maria and Antelope Valley adjudications.
Mr. Markman was a principal trial counsel and represented numerous
public agencies in the Court of Appeals and the California Supreme
Court in the successful second effort to adjudicate and bring management
to the water resources of the Mojave River Basin. He now represents
public agencies involved in active water negotiations and related
matters in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, Santa
Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties.
Mr. Markman personally represented numerous California Regional
Water Quality Control Boards and, in that capacity, instituted the
first four civil suits brought under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality
Control Act, which cases were related to the pollution of Monterey
Bay.
Mr. Markman served as Deputy Attorney General for the State of
California from 1968 through 1970, where he specialized in water
rights and pollution matters. While with the Attorney General's
office, he also solely handled 53 cases in the appellate courts
of this State, including three before the California Supreme Court.
Mr. Markman is an active member of the Association of California
Water Agencies (“ACWA”). He regularly attends ACWA meetings,
conferences and seminars where he is a frequent seminar speaker
on a variety of water law and water rights issues.
|
