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Lisa Bond is a shareholder in the Environmental
and Energy Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon and is the
Chair of the Firm's Environmental and Energy Department. Ms. Bond
represents both private and public sector clients in a wide variety
of business and environmental matters.
Ms. Bond specializes in environmental litigation, including prosecution
and defense of contaminated property clean-ups, cost recovery cases
and environmental insurance coverage claims. Ms. Bond has handled
major litigation arising under CERCLA, RCRA, the Clean Water Act
and Proposition 65 and has acted as lead attorney for joint defense
groups in complex multiparty litigation. Ms. Bond argued the leading
case on the "passive migration" issue in front of an en banc panel
of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in an action alleging environmental
contamination resulting from storm water. Ms. Bond has experience
negotiating complex settlement agreements in environmental cases,
including consent decrees with California environmental agencies.
Ms. Bond also represents clients on National Pollution Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) permits, real estate transactions, Brownfields
redevelopment projects, and Polanco Act issues, pipeline franchises
and utility users' tax matters.
Ms. Bond also regularly represents clients on a wide variety of
complex business litigation, including contract disputes.
Ms. Bond is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court,
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Central, Eastern, Northern
and Southern Districts of California.
Ms. Bond is the Chair, an officer, of the Executive Committee of
the Environmental Section of the Los Angeles County Bar. Ms. Bond
is also a former member of the Executive Committee of the Environmental
Law Section of the State Bar of California.
Published Opinions
Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. Unocal Corporation, 287
F.Supp.2d 1118 (C.D.Cal. 2003); Carson Harbor Village, Ltd.
v. Unocal Corporation, 270 F.3d 863 (9th Cir. 2001), cert.
denied, Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. Braley, 535
U.S. 971 (2002) [prior opinions published at 227 F.3d 1196 (9th
Cir. 2000) and 990 F.Supp. 1188 (C.D. Cal. 1997)]. California
Dept. of Toxic Substances Control v. Commercial Realty Projects,
Inc., 309 F.3d 1113 (9th Cir. 2002).
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