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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 environmental matters.
Ms. Bond specializes in 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 and the Clean Water Act 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 has also represented clients on
real estate transactions, Brownfields redevelopment projects, and
Polanco Act issues.
Ms. Bond also has significant experience in energy law and has
represented clients in a wide range of energy matters before courts
and agencies.
Ms. Bond is the Treasurer, an officer, of the Executive Committee
of the Environmental Section of the Los Angeles County Bar. Ms.
Bond is also a 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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