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Jon L. Benjamin, Partner
Jon L. Benjamin is a partner in the Environmental Law Department. Mr. Benjamin's practice focuses on the areas of environmental and health and safety law.
Mr. Benjamin's environmental practice includes significant experience in the areas of hazardous, solid and aqueous waste permitting, air permitting and variances, toxic hot spots, compliance and enforcement regarding federal, state and local EHS requirements (including SARA Title III, Clean Water Act TMDLs and POTW requirements and RCRA), real property site assessments and cleanups including cost allocations at Superfund and other multi-party Sites, UST Fund matters, the development of contaminated sites including complex Brownfields transactions, land use, environmental review under CEQA and NEPA, risk assessments, California's Proposition 65 and related issues, due diligence and counseling support for complex real estate and corporate transactions, as well as workout/bankruptcy situations, strategic environmental planning, environmental insurance strategies and negotiation of policy language, federal and state-OSHA programs compliance (including Cal-OSHA), and corporate health and safety strategies. Mr. Benjamin has represented numerous clients in the energy sector, including waste-to-energy and the emerging clean tech field.
Prior to joining Farella, Mr. Benjamin was a partner at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP in San Francisco, where he practiced environmental and health and safety law. He was a program analyst in the Office of the Secretary of the federal Department of Health & Human Services from 1979 through 1981. Mr. Benjamin was a public affairs fellow with the Coro Foundation in San Francisco.