Partners
| Daniel Cooper A founding partner of Lawyers for Clean Water, Daniel Cooper is a 1990 graduate of Golden Gate University School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Cooper worked as an extern at the Natural Heritage Institute, an environmental advocacy organization, and at the California Attorney General’s Office, Environmental Enforcement Section. Since admission to the Bar in 1991, Mr. Cooper has maintained an environmental litigation practice representing a variety of non-profit groups. His primary clients have been the Keeper organizations. Mr. Cooper has been co-counsel on over 150 successful Clean Water Act enforcement actions to date, including industrial, construction, and municipal storm water enforcement, sewer system overflows, military base closures, pretreatment violations, and hazardous waste site clean up. In addition Mr. Cooper is active at the administrative level, interacting with and if necessary litigating against State and Federal agencies charged with protecting the aquatic environment. > daniel@lawyersforcleanwater.com |
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| Layne Friedrich is a founding partner of Lawyers for Clean Water and is a 1997 graduate of Golden Gate University School of Law, where she graduated with an Environmental Certificate of Specialization with Distinction. While in law school, Ms. Friedrich worked at several local environmental organizations and law firms, and represented low-income communities in citizen enforcement actions as a certified student clinician at Golden Gate’s Environmental Law and Justice Clinic. Ms. Friedrich manages the attorneys, support staff and legal intern department at Lawyers for Clean Water, and has extensive Clean Water Act litigation experience in federal court, as well as representing clients in successful state court writ of mandate actions. Ms. Friedrich has served as President of the Board of Directors for a local non-profit environmental organization, and has been a guest lecturer for environmental courses at local law schools. Ms. Friedrich participates as a judge in Golden Gate University’s Appellate Advocacy program, and as a mentor and judge in the Student Environmental Negotiations sponsored by the Environmental Section of the State Bar of California. Ms. Friedrich has also mentored high school students as part of the California State Bar Law Academy Program, and is a full-time mentor as part of the Sonoma Mentoring Alliance. > layne@lawyersforcleanwater.com |
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Associates
| Drevet Hunt is a 2005 graduate of the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Mr. Hunt joined Lawyers for Clean Water following law school. He teams with partners in all stages of federal court litigation, and is a seasoned federal court litigator. His experience includes all types of cases in which Lawyers for Clean Water provides representation, including citizen suits under the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recover Act (RCRA) in federal court, and petitions for writ of mandate against state and local agencies in state court. He also regularly assists clients in administrative proceedings before state agencies. Mr. Hunt graduated from Hastings with a Concentration in Public Interest Law, and was a member of West Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. As a recipient of a Hastings Public Interest Law Foundation Grant, Mr. Hunt spent the summer of 2004 as an intern with Lawyers for Clean Water in San Francisco. During law school, Mr. Hunt also interned with Earthjustice in Oakland and at the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic. He also held leadership roles in several student organizations including the Hastings Public Interest Law Foundation and the Hastings Environmental Law Society. He graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Conservation and Resource Studies. > drev@lawyersforcleanwater.com |
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| Caroline Koch is a 2009 graduate of Golden Gate University School of Law, where she graduated with a Certificate of Specialization in Environmental Law with Honors. Ms. Koch’s involvement with student organizations at GGU included her time as President of the Environmental Law Society, and as an associate editor of the Environmental Law Journal. Additionally, Ms. Koch represented communities suffering disparate impacts of environmental harms as a certified practicing law student with the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic. During the summer of 2008, Ms. Koch worked as an intern with Lawyers for Clean Water. Most recently, Ms. Koch worked as a volunteer legal research attorney in the Law and Motion Department of the San Francisco Superior Court. Ms. Koch joined Lawyers for Clean Water, Inc. in May of 2010. > caroline@lawyersforcleanwater.com |
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| Shannon Chaney is a 2008 graduate of Golden Gate University School of Law, where she graduated with honors. Ms. Chaney was also a member of the Honors Lawyering Program, a recipient of both a Merit Scholarship and the Joseph and Ruth Zukor Memorial Scholarship, and was inducted into the Jesse W. Carter Society in 2008. During law school, Ms. Chaney was a member of the Golden Gate University Law Review, the Public Interest Law Foundation, and Phi Delta Phi. Ms. Chaney also devoted her time during law school to representing a small community in southern California suffering environmental harm with the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic. Before joining Lawyers for Clean Water, Ms. Chaney worked at a small public-interest environmental law firm in Oakland, where her work focused on representing small community groups and individuals in California Environmental Quality Act and National Environmental Policy Act cases. Ms. Chaney graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. Ms. Chaney joined Lawyers for Clean Water, Inc. in October of 2011. > shannon@lawyersforcleanwater.com |
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| Ashley Eagle-Gibbs is a 2010 graduate of Golden Gate University School of Law, where she graduated with Certificates of Specialization in both Public Interest and Environmental Law with Distinction. Ms. Eagle-Gibbs was also a recipient of the Graduation Award for Academic Excellence in Environmental Law, numerous merit-based scholarships, and was inducted into the Jesse W. Carter Society for Academic Achievement in 2010. While Ms. Eagle-Gibbs studied law at night, she worked as a Legal Secretary for Lawyers for Clean Water for four years. During law school, Ms. Eagle-Gibbs also worked as a certified student clinician at Golden Gate’s Environmental Law and Justice Clinic and interned at the Center for Biological Diversity. Following law school, Ms. Eagle-Gibbs volunteered at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she worked on the India Initiative, a project designed to increase United States and India’s cooperation on energy efficiency and climate change. Ms. Eagle-Gibbs is a 2004 graduate of the University of Puget Sound, where she obtained a degree in Comparative Sociology, with minors in French and Environmental Studies. Ms. Eagle-Gibbs re-joined Lawyers for Clean Water in January of 2012. > ashley@lawyersforcleanwater.com |
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