Rosslyn "Beth" Hummer

Intro

Beth focuses on business litigation relating to environmental matters and real estate. Her experience as a former chemist and environmental regulator adds an understanding of complex science and engineering to her representations of clients.

She has handled major environmental contamination cases throughout California, especially matters related to groundwater contamination, including CERCLA matters. She has worked on some of the highest-profile contamination matters in the State of California, prosecuting claims for clients, staving off regulatory enforcement actions and litigation, and defending clients in civil actions. She represents clients in state and federal courts in California, and at arbitrations and in bench and jury trials. Beth also has litigated in the Bankruptcy Court in the Central District, as well as before the Second District Court of Appeal.

Prior to attending law school, Beth was an environmental regulator with the California Integrated Waste Management Board (now CalRecycle) regulating solid waste landfills. She also was an R&D chemist developing capillary gas chromatography phases for J&W Scientific (now a division of Agilent). 
 
Beth also has handled commercial litigation and real estate boundary disputes. She has applied her scientific background and her understanding of environmental issues to real estate transactions and disputes. Among her recent successes, Beth successfully put a long-negotiated amendment to a CERCLA Federal Facilities Agreement to bed for a client. 
 

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