rwgLisa Bond
Lisa BondShareholderLos Angeles

T

213.626.8484

F

213.626.0078

E

 

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).

 
Education

B.A., High Honors, University of Texas at Austin, 1990
M.B.A., High Honors, University of Texas Graduate
School of Business, 1994
J.D., Honors, University of Texas School of Law, 1994

 
Practice Areas

Brownfields Redevelopment
Business Litigation
Environmental Compliance
Environmental Insurance
Environmental Litigation
Oil & Gas
Proposition 65
Real Estate Transactions