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Description of Practice:
David Cooke is a Partner in the Litigation and Environmental Departments of the firm's San Francisco office. His practice is concentrated primarily on civil litigation and environmental counseling, with a focus on hazardous waste and contaminated property disputes (including federal and state statutory or common law enforcement, contribution, cost recovery and natural resource damage actions); counseling and negotiations involving the investigation, remediation, disposition and re-use of contaminated properties; counseling and litigation involving water rights and water supply; land use issues under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); stationary source permitting matters, enforcement actions and citizen suits under the federal and California Clean Air Acts; transportation planning and air quality litigation under the federal Clean Air Act; permitting and enforcement matters under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, and other environmental statutes; compliance and enforcement matters involving hazardous materials management and release reporting; compliance with and actions under California's Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65); and environmental insurance and policyholder-side environmental insurance coverage litigation. David's practice includes general commercial and business litigation often involving real property-related disputes. His litigation experience also includes a wide range of actions involving such diverse areas as eminent domain, trademark and copyright, admiralty law, construction defects, defamation, personal injury, and prison conditions law.
David was admitted to the California Bar in 1980 and to the District of Columbia Bar in 1991. He is a member of and/or involved in the American Bar Association, the San Francisco Bar Association, and the California Bar -Environmental Law Section. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California, and the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.
Educational History:
David received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, with highest distinction, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia. | 