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Staff
Peggy Cahill, Office Manager/Secretary...cahill@bnd-law.com
Kathleen Miller, Legal Assistant...miller@bnd-law.com
Lawyers
David A. Bricklin, Partner
Claudia M. Newman, Partner
Jennifer A. Dold, Partner
Devon N. Shannon, Associate
newman@bnd-law.com
Areas of Practice
Environmental, land use, Green Building, Native American, and energy facility siting law
Representative Experience
I have extensive litigation experience in the fields of state and federal environmental and land use law and have represented environmental organizations, citizens groups, individuals, and local governments in a wide variety of administrative and judicial forums. I have assisted clients with matters involving smart growth, new urbanism, comprehensive planning, environmental review, and site-specific development proposals. I have also represented clients in a variety of federal matters that involved the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and other federal environmental laws. I have also litigated issues involving Native American law involving land use, sovereign immunity, jurisdictional issues, gaming, and administrative law with considerable experience appearing in Tribal court.
My experience has ranged from complex litigation with statewide implications involving over a dozen state agencies, several federal agencies, and numerous local jurisdictions across the state to litigation involving single sites within a single jurisdiction. I have appeared before a number of different administrative bodies, including the Growth Management Hearings Boards, the Shorelines Hearings Boards, the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, and numerous local government hearing examiners and legislative bodies. I have appeared before the Washington State Superior Court, Western District of Washington Federal Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Lectured at land use law CLE’s and presented to and trained organizations and individuals on a wide variety of topics including land use laws and process and tribal sovereign immunity-jurisdictional issues.
Formed Bricklin Newman Dold, LLP partnership with emphasis in land use and environmental law in 2002 after working as an associate at Bricklin and Gendler since 1994.
Law Clerk, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Summer 1993.
Law Clerk, Professor Richard Lazarus, 1991-1993
Publications
Claudia M. Newman & Richard J. Lazarus, City of Chicago v. Environmental Defense Fund: Searching for Plain Meaning in Unambiguous Ambiguity, 4 N.Y.U. Envtl. L. J. (1995)
Bar and Civic Activities
Washington State Bar Association
Missouri State Bar Association
United States District Court, Western District of Washington
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Licensed to practice in Tulalip Tribal Court
Member, Cascadia Green Building Council, Seattle Steering Committee, 2005 to present.
Member, ASHRAE Standard Project Committee 189, authoring Standard for the Design of High Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, 2006 to present.
Co-Chair, Board of Directors, Washington Conservation Voters -- King County Chapter, April, 1997-April, 1999, member April, 1996 to June, 2003.
Speaker on CLEs in environmental and land use fields
Member, Joint Legislative Task Force on Energy Facility Siting, 2000
Member, Code Enforcement Task Force for King County Council, 1997
Referendum 48/No on "164" Legal Committee, 1995
Education
J.D., Washington University School of Law (1994) - Order of the Barrister
B.A., Majors: Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1988)
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