Overview – Significant Representations – Curriculum Vitae

Overview

Ladd Cahoon practices in the areas of impaired property transactions, including environmental due diligence and Brownfields property redevelopment and related environmental insurance procurement, and hazardous waste site remediation by property owners and other responsible parties.   Ladd also represents clients in connection with storm water, land use, wetlands and CEQA issues, as well as the California Surface Mining and Reclamation Act.  Ladd’s practice also has included the defense of claims brought under California’s unique toxics and labeling law, Proposition 65.

Prior to his legal career, Ladd conducted water quality enforcement at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, engaged in water quality and wetlands legislative policy and lobbying for the National Wildlife Federation, and worked as an earth sciences laboratory technician at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Significant Representations

Representing a large, international retailer in conducting environmental due diligence investigations, the negotiation of environmental terms in leases and purchase and sale agreements, and the litigation of breach of contract claims on environmental issues, for new and expanding facilities in California and elsewhere in the western United States.

Representing a former chemical manufacturer in connection with its legacy liability arising out of its status as former large volume generator to a very large Class I hazardous waste landfill, by negotiating investigation and remediation requirements with state agencies and internal cost allocation formulas with other potentially responsible parties.

Representing small ranchers and estate winery and vineyard owners regarding underground storage tank release remediation, state UST Fund reimbursement strategies and successful appeals.

Representing neighborhood groups opposing specific development plans in residential areas.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1997.
  • Executive Editor, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review
• University of California at Berkeley, B.A. (Envtl. Sciences), 1992.

Admissions & Memberships

State Bar Admissions

• California

Federal Court Admissions

• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• United States District Courts for Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern Districts of California.