Bio

Ken is a contaminated property specialist who provides counseling and litigation support on environmental issues in property ownership, transactions (purchase, sale or financing) and redevelopment. Ken helps purchasers, sellers, developers, businesses, and landowners with site acquisition, investigation and remediation strategies. A former Assistant Attorney General for the Washington State Department of Ecology, Ken has successfully facilitated the negotiation, remediation and redevelopment of hundreds of contaminated properties throughout the Northwest. Ken takes the time to learn about each client’s goals and objectives to navigate the negotiation of contractual provisions and transactional indemnities regarding environmental liability, and to guide property owners with the best way to address contamination issues on existing properties – whether during redevelopment or not. Ken is also an experienced first-chair trial attorney, with a strong background in federal and state hazardous waste cost-recovery litigation and natural resource damage litigation.