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Jennifer Hartman KingCounsel Contact Info: Practice Areas: Bio Jennifer Hartman King's practice focuses on environmental law with broad experience handling litigation in state and federal court, administrative enforcement defense, compliance counseling, and transactional matters. Her clients include both public and private entities, and she represents them as lead counsel on many issues. In her litigation practice, Jennifer handles complex multi-party actions involving soil, air, and groundwater contamination, including federal and state cost recovery and contribution actions, natural resource damages litigation, toxics exposure cases, and environmental criminal defense. Jennifer's caseload emphasizes actions involving CERCLA, RCRA, Porter-Cologne Water Quality Act, and Hazardous Substances Account Act. She has negotiated complex settlement agreements involving government entities and private parties and has settled multiple criminal enforcement actions brought by the California Environmental Circuit Prosecutors. Jennifer also defends clients in a range of governmental enforcement actions. Frequently, these issues arise in the context of contaminated soil and groundwater; however, Jennifer also has unique expertise handling enforcement actions involving pesticide and dairy industry regulations. Jennifer has experience negotiating with various federal, state, and local agencies and departments, including the United States Environmental Protection Agency, California Department of Toxic Substances Control, State Water Resources Control Board, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, the Department of Fish and Game, Department of Pesticide Regulation, and Department of Food and Agriculture. Jennifer's compliance and transactional practice includes site investigation and remediation, underground storage tank regulations, and emergency spill reporting. She has particular expertise in handling applications to the California Underground Storage Tank Fund and has successfully appealed multiple adverse administrative decisions related to the Fund. Jennifer also advises clients in real estate transactions involving contaminated property, including environmental due diligence, disclosures, and deed restrictions. She has experience negotiating complex environmental provisions in transactions involving the purchase and sale or leasing of contaminated property, and advising clients regarding strategic deal structuring for allocating and minimizing potential environmental liabilities. Before joining Downey Brand, Jennifer was Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary to Governor Gray Davis. In her role with the Davis administration, she provided legal advice and assistance to the Governor and his staff on many issues facing the State. She reviewed and analyzed legislation pending before the Governor. She oversaw litigation challenging various decisions made by the Governor, including several high profile cases. She was also the primary liaison in the Governor's Legal Affairs Office for several State agencies and departments, and was responsible for reviewing their significant legal and litigation issues. Prior to her appointment to the Governor's staff, Jennifer began her legal career as an associate in the Los Angeles office of Bingham McCutchen, LLP, where she practiced environmental litigation and compliance counseling. Before earning her law degree, Jennifer worked as a research assistant at the United States Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Business Affairs. She also was selected by the State Department to serve the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as a Voter Registration Supervisor in Bosnia Herzegovina in 1997 and as an Election Monitor for the national elections in Republika Serbska in 1998.
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