The Arnold Law Practice represents companies and private individuals. Our attorneys try cases, appear before state and federal regulatory agencies, and counsel clients on contracts, leases, compliance with government orders, easements, and other transactions that involve environmental issues. We help clients comply with California and federal environmental laws and regulations and represent clients with claims involving the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air laws, Proposition 65, and the complex network of hazardous waste laws, such as CERCLA, RCRA, TSCA, the HSAA, and the HWCL. We focus on redevelopment, re-use, and foreclosure of contaminated properties, called “brownfields.” We advise clients on real property transactions, such as conducting environmental due diligence and apportioning environmental liability in real estate contracts, leases and other agreements. We represent clients in disputes as to spills, leaks, releases, air emissions, cleanup costs, damages, title, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, property damages due to overflights and sewer leaks, specific performance, and roads and other real estate legal issues.

The attorneys of The Arnold Law Practice contribute to educating the legal community and the general public about environmental law issues. Our attorneys have written articles about due diligence, historical road access law in California, recent developments in CERCLA and contribution and allocation of liabilities, and the elements of contracts with environmental consultants. Our attorneys support programs of the Environmental Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Environmental Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the California State Bar. We have organized and presented educational programs to groups including lawyers, metal finishers, real estate developers, banks, environmental consultants, small business owners, and national companies on such topics as Superfund, environmental enforcement, Proposition 65, consumer product safety, OSHA and environmental health and safety, asphalt plants, stormwater, climate change and environmental sustainability. We are also active with the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy, & Resources. Mr. Arnold has been active in the leadership of the Section for many years. He has written and lectured extensively on environmental compliance, brownfields redevelopment, road and access law, manufacturing compliance with environmental health and safety laws, and the California Underground Storage Tank Fund.