Liz navigates clients through a variety of complex environmental compliance areas to manage risks, achieve strategic business goals, and stay ahead of the evolving regulatory landscape.
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Liz focuses her practice on regulatory compliance, encompassing a mix of federal and state environmental statutes. Her work includes counseling some of the world's largest companies on environmental, health, and safety regulations. Liz regularly interfaces with local and state agencies to assist her clients in navigating the evolving regulatory landscape surrounding consumer product regulation, extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs, air regulations, mobile source strategies, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. She also counsels clients on environmental due diligence and environmental transactions.
Liz's previous experience includes the development of a novel environmental regulatory regime, commercial arbitration and litigation, challenges to federal agency regulatory programs, and antitrust investigation defense. She continues to leverage her litigation experience to protect her clients’ future interests while tackling their current challenges.
During law school, Liz was a clinical student in Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic, an editor for Berkeley's flagship environmental law journal, Ecology Law Quarterly, and the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and a co-organizer of the 2019 Environmental Justice Symposium "Ground-Truthing Injustice."
Liz started her legal career as a paralegal in international litigation and arbitration in Washington, D.C. Her experiences working on high profile disputes before international tribunals including the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea sparked her interest and passion for environmental law and inspired her to become an attorney.
Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.
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