Perkins Coie is pleased to announce Marc Bruner has joined the firm as partner in the Environment, Energy & Resources practice. He joins in San Francisco where he previously served as partner at Bingham McCutchen.
“Marc is a great gain for our clients; he is a brilliant attorney with extensive knowledge of both federal and California environmental law, and he is a perfect fit for our ever growing environmental practice,” said Tom Lindley, firmwide Environment, Energy & Resources practice chair.
Bruner represents governmental entities and private companies in a wide variety of environmental and land use matters under federal and California laws governing water supply, water quality, use of recycled water, coastal development, state lands and the public trust, green building requirements, flood protection and safety, and protected species. He has extensive litigation and counseling experiences in matters arising under the Clean Water Act, California Environmental Quality Act, National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act.
He has advised and defended clients adopting short- and long-term development plans, repairing California’s levees, expanding public airports and undertaking a broad array of projects including residential subdivisions, large commercial and mixed-use developments, landfills, roadway improvements, industrial projects and public agency land acquisitions.
Bruner earned his J.D. from Yale Law School where he served as managing editor for the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. He received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College where he received the John Harvard Academic Scholarship each year. He is a frequent author and commentator on environmental and land use issues.
Bruner is the 15th attorney to join the firm’s Environment, Energy & Resources practice this year, together with Robert Thibault in Denver; Cecily Barclay, Marie Cooper, Matthew Gray, Julie Jones, Stephen Kostka, Alan Murphy, Geoffrey Robinson, Barbara Schussman and Christopher Tom in San Francisco; L. John Iani in Seattle; and LeAnn Johnson Koch, Paul Smyth and Alexandra Magill Bromer in Washington, D.C. These attorneys join more than 70 Perkins Coie attorneys focused on environmental, energy and resource matters. The Environmental practice has been ranked by Chambers USA nationally and in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
