Environmental Law
Envt'l Law News FALL 2020, VOL. 29, NO. 2
Content
- 2019-2020 Environmental Law Section Executive Committee
- 2019-2020 Executive Committee of the Public Law Section
- 2019-2020 Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section
- 2019-2020 Public Law Journal Editorial Board
- 2020 California Real Property Journal
- Environmental Law News Publications Committee
- Homeless Encampments and Water Quality
- MCLE Self-Study Article Groundwater Recharge Projects: Considerations for Water Managers and Neighboring Landowners
- Message from the Editors-in-Chief
- Message from the Section Chairs
- Protecting Public Services for All Ratepayers: Proposition 218 Process After Plantier
- Table of Contents
- The California Government Claims Act: a Primer, Application to Real Property and Environmental Law Claims, and Recent California Supreme Court Decisions
- The Pandemic's Impacts on Developers and Contractors May Call for Seldom-Used Relief: An Overview of the Principles of Force Majeure, Impracticability, and Frustration of Purpose
- Carbon Projects and Working Forest Conservation in California
Carbon Projects and Working Forest Conservation in California
Jess R. Phelps and David P. Hoffer
Jess Phelps is Associate General Counsel for the Lyme Timber Company. Prior to joining Lyme, Jess worked at a leading Vermont law firm in its real estate and environmental practice groups and as an attorney for the USDA’s Office of General Counsel, Natural Resources and Environment Division in Washington D.C.*
David Hoffer is General Counsel and President of Lyme Timber Company, manages Lyme Timber’s legal affairs, and oversees the company’s ecosystem services and conservation investment strategies. Before joining Lyme in 2011, he served as an investment banker, a technology executive, a practicing lawyer, and an entrepreneur. He holds a JD, MBA, and AB from Harvard University.*