Free Declaration in Support - District Court of California - California

Case 3:07-cv-04936-CRB

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Alexander G. Crockett, Esq.
Assistant Counsel Bay Area Air Quality Management District 939 Ellis Street San Francisco, CA 94117 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA September 2003 ­ Present Assistant Counsel All types of legal matters involving local air quality regulatory agency, including Civil penalty enforcement litigation Project permitting under state and federal air quality permitting programs, including litigation of permit appeals before state and federal courts and administrative tribunals Air quality planning and administrative rulemaking matters CEQA counseling and litigation involving agency regulatory actions Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, San Francisco, CA May 2000 ­ August 2003 Associate Wide range of litigation, project permitting and compliance counseling matters under numerous Federal and California environmental laws, including: Clean Air Act citizen suits CEQA project permitting and counseling Superfund cost recovery and contribution litigation California Proposition 65 litigation and counseling Environmental compliance counseling Beveridge & Diamond LLP, San Francisco, CA September 1999 ­ May 2000 Associate Wide range of litigation, project permitting and compliance counseling matters under numerous Federal and California environmental laws, including: Superfund cost recovery and contribution litigation Project permitting and CEQA review Defense of environmental enforcement cases General environmental regulatory compliance counseling Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC September 1997 ­ July 1999 Associate Summer 1996 Wide range of environmental and natural resources litigation, transaction, compliance and counseling work involving a variety of State and Federal laws, including: Administrative rulemaking litigation Environmental enforcement proceedings before courts and administrative agencies Regulatory compliance counseling and permitting matters

Case 3:07-cv-04936-CRB

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Filed 03/07/2008

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The Environmental Lawyer, Washington, DC May 1996 ­ May 1997 Editor-in-Chief Edited and published law journal of the American Bar Association's Section on Environment, Energy & Resources Law EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund, Washington, DC January 1996-April 1996 Law Clerk Researched and drafted legal memoranda for grassroots federal environmental litigation U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC August 1995 ­ December 1995 Law Clerk Conducted research and drafted memoranda, briefs and written discovery for cases under CERCLA, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. Summer 1995 Performed factual development and legal research for motor vehicle fuels regulation enforcement cases under the Clean Air Act EDUCATION The George Washington University Law School, Washington DC J.D. with High Honors, May 1997 GPA 3.69; Order of the Coif; Class Rank 17 of 450 Honors in Legal Research & Writing, Oral Advocacy, Trial Advocacy Editor-in-Chief, The Environmental Lawyer Dean's Fellow (student-teacher, legal research and writing) The London School of Economics, London, England M.A., International Relations, June 1995 Dissertation: Great Power Leadership in the Formation of International Environmental Agreements Cambridge University, Cambridge, England B.A. with Honors, June 1992 M.A., December 1998 BAR ADMISSIONS California District of Columbia