Marten Law Group advises clients on all aspects of environmental law, assisting companies and public agencies with their most challenging environmental, land use, and natural resource matters.
News
- Steve Jones has been elected to the Board of the Environmental and Land Use Section of the Washington State Bar Asociation.
- Jeff Kray has been appointed Committee Newsletter Vice Chair for the Water Resources Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources.
- Jeff Kray is quoted by the Seattle PI for his expertise in water rights litigation. The article, entitled “Judge’s Water Ruling a Blow to Builders,” is printed in the June 11, 2008, edition.
- Steve Jones, Jeff Kray, and Brad Marten have all been recognized as “Super Lawyers” in Washington Law and Politics magazine. Steve and Jeff have been named “Super Lawyers” of Environmental Litigation. The magazine distinguished Brad as one of the “Top 100” attorneys in Washington State and as a “Super Lawyer” of Environmental Law.
- A profile of Brad Marten was featured in King County Bar Association’s May 2008 Bar Bulletin.
- Jeff Kray was recognized as one of the top 10 environmental lawyers in the state by Washington CEO magazine
- Marten Law Group is the first Northwest law firm to be certified under the ABA-EPA Law Office Climate Challenge program. Read more » The firm has recently been featured in Legal Assistant Today and in the ABA Journal.
- Brad Marten has been recognized as one of the top five environmental lawyers in Seattle by Seattle magazine. He has also been named one of “Washington’s Most Amazing Attorneys” by Washington CEO magazine and a “Top Lawyer” by Seattle Metropolitan magazine.
Events
| Oct. 22 | Steve Jones | “Climate Change Impacts from New Development: The Next Basis for Mitigation and Impact Fees?”; Law Seminar International’s Impact Fees Workshop; Seattle |
Articles
| Meline MacCurdy | “EPA Seeks to ‘Green’ Environmental Cleanups,” The Environmental Counselor |
| Jeff Kray | “EPA Rule Exempts Water Transfers from NPDES Permit Requirements,” The Environmental Counselor |
| Meline MacCurdy | “Get Off Of My Cloud: PRP Denied Intervention in Environmental Coverage Dispute,” The Environmental Counselor |
| Jeff Kray | “Box of Rain – States Take a Closer Look at Rainwater Harvesting,” GreenerBuildings |
| Meline MacCurdy | “EPA Announces Plan for More Frequent Inspections at Small Industrial and Municipal Water Dischargers, CAFOs, Construction Sites,” The Environmental Counselor |
| Jeff Kray | “Washington State’s Municipal Water Law: Landmark Law Partially Invalidated in Trial Court,” The Water Report |
| Dustin Till | “Threatened by Rising Seas, Native Village Seeks Lifeline,” KCBA’s Bar Bulletin |
| Jessica Ferrell | “Logging on Private Land and the Endangered Species Act,” ABA’s Real Estate Law Trends and News |
| Dustin Till | “Assessing Climate Change—Trends under State Environmental Policy Acts and the National Environmental Policy Act,” ABA’s Environmental Impact Assessment Committee Newsletter |
| Steve Jones | “King County First in the Nation to Require Climate Change Impacts to Be Considered During Environmental Review of New Projects,” ABA’s Environmental Impact Assessment Committee Newsletter |
