Cascadia Law Group is delighted to welcome Meghan E. Gavin as an associate in our Seattle office.
Meghan joins us from the chambers of the Honorable Ronald B. Leighton, District Judge for the Western District of Washington, where she served as a two-year term law clerk. She worked on a variety of civil and criminal cases involving federal and state law, many of which national and local press followed closely.
UK-based Chambers & Partners has published its annual global survey results, and their USA guide continues to rank our firm and lawyers "Band 1": at the top of our profession in the Environment category.
The former EPA Region 10 Administrator and Executive Director of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency will join our Seattle office.
Puget Sound Partnership news release:
Cascadia and our lawyers have featured again in this year's crop of legal accolades:
The happy news is spreading all over the Puget Sound region that, with volunteer leadership help from Cascadia's Stephen J. Tan, the nonprofit Friends of 88.5 reached a deal to buy back public radio station KPLU, which had been slotted to be sold to the University of Washington. See KPLU's news story here.
We are happy to announce Jay Manning’s appointment to the Board of Trustees at Eastern Washington University. Gov. Inslee made the appointment effective November 20, 2015. The Board of Trustees is the highest policymaking body for the University, working closely with the University President, the administration, the faculty, and students on fiscal, policy and management issues.
For More Information: Jay Manning, jmanning [at] cascadialaw.com, 360-280-1272
CASCADIA LAW GROUP HIRES FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA
I was privileged to attend the COP-21 meeting in Paris, where 196 countries from around the world worked to negotiate a new agreement to reduce international emissions of greenhouse gases and limit global warming. I was there supporting the Pacific Coast Collaborative (PCC), whose members are the states of Washington, Oregon, and California, and the Province of British Columbia.
Cascadia Law Group congratulates Valerie Fairwell in being named a co-editor for the Washington State Bar Association Environmental and Land Use newsletter. If you are interested in publishing an article in the newsletter, please contact Ms. Fairwell at vfairwell [at] cascadialaw.com.
