Education | | J.D., 2003, University of Michigan Law School | | B.A., 2000, cum laude, Hope College | | 1999, Institute for the International Education of Students, Salamanca, Spain |
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Admitted | | California | | Nevada | | U.S. Supreme Court | | U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit |
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Distinctions | Hope College Miles Award in Law, 2000
Top 40 Under 40, Pacific Coast Business Times |
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Memberships | Groundwater Resources Association of California, Secretary of the Board of Directors |
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| Brad is a Shareholder in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Santa Barbara office and a member of the Water & Public Lands Group. His practice includes a broad range of water issues in California and Nevada, including strategic water supply planning, water rights permitting and regulatory compliance, adjudications of groundwater rights, water utility concerns, Indian water rights and environmental matters affecting water use, including CEQA compliance and water quality issues, including those arising under the federal Clean Water Act and California Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
Brad works closely with numerous public water agencies, special districts, private landowners and water utilities, assisting them with transactional negotiations, litigation and administrative agency proceedings. He serves as agency counsel to the South Tahoe Public Utility District, and represents private landowners in the Antelope Valley Groundwater Adjudication and represents golf courses throughout the Southwest. |
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Representative Matters | | Negotiated and consummated the purchase of an 18-hole golf course, club house, and related facilities located in Henderson, Nevada. Brownstein also advised the client on various real estate, litigation, corporate water rights and business licensing matters. | | Representation of golf course in water rate proceeding before the Arizona Corporations Commission. Presentation of evidence and testimony regarding impacts of proposed increases in rates for course's irrigation water supplies. | | In two separate cases approved changes to Carson River water rights, pursuant to United States v. Alpine Land & Reservoir Company. Both cases included approvals to points of diversion, manner of use and place of use for decreed water rights. | Litigation challenging State Board issued NPDES general permit for stormwater discharges associated with construction activities as violating the federal Clean Water Act and California's Porter-Cologne Act.
| | Lead Counsel, Antelope Valley Groundwater Adjudication, Los Angeles Superior Court, Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding 4408 (Ongoing) representing long-time water user landowners. 2002 to present. | | view all >> |
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Publications & Presentations | "California Construction Stormwater Permit Invalidated," Brownstein Client Alert, December 8, 2011.
| "Brownstein Client Alert: New Public Contract Code Provisions Limit Public Works Project Retention Amounts," Brownstein Client Alert, November 16, 2011.
| "The Nevada Experience: Grand Slam and Where We Go From Here," Sacramento, CA, June 14, 2011.
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