Associate

Tim represents the firm's clients in litigation and public agency matters. He has assisted with numerous water rights litigation proceedings before a variety of adjudicative bodies including California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona state courts, the California State Water Resources Control Board, the Nevada State Engineer, Federal district courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Court of Federal Claims, and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Tim's litigation experience has also included products liability cases and disputes related to California's Proposition 65.

Beyond the litigation context, Tim has drafted board resolutions and ballot materials to support a California reclamation district's proposal for increased operation and maintenance assessment charges, represented a consortium of over two dozen cities and water districts in scoping meetings for the relicensing of a hydroelectric project by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and provided counsel in preparing formal comments on study plans for a proposed NEPA Environmental Impact Statement.

Tim regularly provides pro bono legal services through the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. Most recently, he helped a client win asylum after a three-year struggle in the San Francisco Immigration Court following an unfavorable ruling at the administrative level.

Prior to joining Hanson Bridgett, Tim worked as the editor of a Native American tribe's monthly news magazine and volunteered as a legal advocate with the California Senior Legal Hotline. 

Publications

"Public Trust–In Nevada? Possible Impacts to Water Rights: Adoption of The Public Trust Doctrine in Nevada", (co-author) Hanson Bridgett Water Law Alert (September 2011)

"California Court of Appeal Reaffirms Traditional Common Law Formula for Determining Boundary Lines Between Littoral Land Owners," Water Law Alert (February 2010)

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