Joshua A. Bloom

Josh Bloom is a partner with Barg Coffin Lewis
& Trapp, LLP. His environmental and natural resources practice includes counseling, litigation, and transactional work, and extends over a broad range of areas. Among other experience, Josh was formerly a partner in the Environmental and Land Use Group at Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco, practiced in Washington, D.C., and was Senior Project Staff with the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York.

Josh's professional expertise includes:

Negotiating some of the largest military base transfers in the nation, including the Presidio of San Francisco, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Adak Island Naval Complex, Oakland Army Base, and South Weymouth Naval Air Station
Negotiating numerous private environmental risk transfer transactions
Representing clients in all aspects of endangered species and wetlands matters, including Section 404 permitting, Section 7 consultations, habitat conservation plans, and criminal and civil defense
Negotiating and advising clients with respect to brownfields development and risk-based cleanup, including matters relating to environmental insurance policies and claims disputes, as well as regulatory agency agreements, orders and decrees
Representing, defending, and advising clients on federal and state compliance matters concerning all aspects of environmental law, including among other things the Clean Water Act, CERCLA, RCRA and other hazardous substance regulations, Proposition 65 and TSCA
Representing clients on government contracting issues

Education

University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D. magna cum laude, 1990
- Editor-in-Chief, Law Review
State University of New York, Albany, M.A., 1982, B.A., 1981
London School of Economic and Political Studies, 1980