SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Joshua Harris graduated from Brown University in 1991 and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 2003. While at Davis, Josh received the Ellison & Schneider Environmental Law Scholarship, won second place in the national Chief Justice John B. Doolin Sovereignty Symposium Writing Contest, and qualified as a Public Service Law Program Scholar.
During law school, Josh authored A Lasting Proposal for Endangered Bay-Delta Fish Survival: The Environmental Water Account and the Accumulation of Water Contract Rights in the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project, (Environs: Environmental Law And Policy Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, Fall 2002) and The Aggregate Homeland Concept (Sovereignty Symposium XV 2002, Language and the Law; War of Words).
Among his other professional experiences, Josh interned at the Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division and at Save San Francisco Bay Association. Prior to entering law school, Josh served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa.
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ASSOCIATES
Alexis Krieg graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003, with a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 2007, with a Certificate in Public Service.
Among her prior professional experiences, Alexis volunteered her time with Bay Area Legal Aid, and during law school she was a member of the King Hall Civil Rights Clinic. Alexis also interned with the California Department of Justice, Health Education and Welfare Section, and with the California Legislature, in the Office of the Senate Majority Leader.
Alexis’s practice areas include the National Environmental Protection Act, California Environmental Quality Act, Clean Water Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, and Endangered Species Act. She also has experience with the Freedom of Information Act and California Public Records Act.
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During law school, Stephanie participated in the Law, Culture, and Difference program where she worked with Greater Boston Legal Services on their HIV/AIDS Asylum project, which focused on benefitting individuals who were living in Zimbabwe and seeking asylum in the United States on the basis of their HIV/AIDS status.
Stephanie has interned with the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, the Berkeley City Attorney’s Office, and McRoberts, Roberts, and Rainer, LLP, a small environmental law firm in Boston.
Stephanie’s practice areas include the California Environmental Quality Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, Land Use, and Bankruptcy. While at Volker Law, Stephanie assisted in the prosecution of numerous CEQA and NEPA cases, including, for example, suits to protect sensitive coastal, mountain and riverine habitat and viewsheds along the coast of Northern California, and adjacent to the Anza-Borrego State Park. Stephanie has also worked on cases to preserve and maintain groundwater quantity and quality, and to encourage energy conservation and recycling of solid waste. Additionally, Stephanie worked on the Amicus Curiae brief that Volker Law submitted in opposition to Proposition 8.
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Dan Garrett-Steinman graduated from Pomona College in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 2009. While at Hastings, Dan received Excellence for the Future Awards in Transnational Law and International Environmental Law, and was also awarded Best Brief, Honorable Mention, in the 2007 Moot Court Competition.
Dan’s practice areas include the National Environmental Protection Act, California Environmental Quality Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act, and constitutional, administrative, and land use law. Dan also has experience with land protection mechanisms including conservation easements.
Jamey graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Davis in 2006, with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Policy, Analysis and Planning, and a Minor in Watershed Science. He received his Juris Doctorate from Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall) in 2010, with a Certificate of Specialization in Environmental Law. He also received a Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010, with an emphasis in Transportation Policy and Planning.
During law school, Jamey authored Water Supplies Finally Take Center Stage in the Land Use Planning Arena (Ecology Law Quarterly, Vol. 35:573, 2008). Additionally, Jamey served as President of the Boalt Environmental Law Society from 2007 to 2009, in which capacity he oversaw efforts to green Boalt Hall, among other things. He was also a member of Ecology Law Quarterly. In recognition of his dedication to public interest environmental and land use law, Jamey was awarded the Barry S. Sandals Memorial Fellowship (2008) and the John Daniel Van Voorhis Memorial Scholarship (2007-08).
Among his prior professional legal experiences, Jamey interned at the Center for Biological Diversity and Earthjustice’s Oakland and Seattle Offices, where he worked on a wide variety of environmental cases in federal and state courts, and before administrative agencies. He was also a clinic intern in the Housing Unit of the East Bay Community Law Center, where he managed low-income tenants’ cases.
Among his other professional experiences, Jamey co-authored with U.C. Davis Professor Susan Handy and others Travel of Diverse Populations: Literature Review (Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-07-35, 2007), which examines the transportation needs of underserved communities in California. He also conducted original research on bicycle usage with Professor Handy, with the goal of helping urban planners increase non-motorized transportation. Additionally, he assisted in the development of alternative transportation policies and programs for U.C. Davis as a member of the campus Transportation and Parking Advisory Committee. Most recently, Jamey jointly authored Old Road, New Directions: A Plan for Adeline for the City of Berkeley, which has been nominated for the American Institute of Certified Planners’ Student Project Award.
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Ben Eichenberg graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 1999 and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 2008. During law school, Ben was a member of Hastings’ West Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy and was on the board of the Environmental Law Society. While at Hastings, Ben received a Cali and Witkin Award for top student performance, completed a Public Interest Law Certificate, and published Fighting for a Way of Life: Public Lands and the Ranchers Who Own Them, an Analysis of Colvin Cattle Co., Inc. v. United States, 468 F.3d 803 (2006) (West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2008).
After law school, Ben was awarded a Fulbright to study climate governance and international environmental law at the University of Oslo in Norway. There he earned a Masters in Law and published his master’s thesis, Green House Gas Regulation and Border Tax Adjustment: The Carrot and the Stick (Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal Vol. 3, Iss. 2, 2009), and presented his work at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon, in February 2010.
Before joining Volker Law, Ben interned at the Stanford University Environmental Law Clinic, externed with the City of San Francisco City Attorney’s Office Energy and Telecommunications Team, held a summer staff position with the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Commission on Energy Policy in Washington, D.C., and consulted for Perkins Coie, also in D.C.
Ben’s practice areas include the California Environmental Quality Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Clean Air Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, the Urban Water Management Plan Act, the public trust doctrine, power plants and energy regulation, and applications of international environmental law, especially applications of environmental regulations to trade and the law of the World Trade Organization. While at Volker Law, Ben assisted in the prosecution of cases involving Hawaii’s Superferry Project, gravel mining on the Russian River, planning requirements for urban water supplies, and America’s largest planned landfill in Riverside County, California, as well as researching the potential for litigation addressing carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Water Act.
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