Julia Mata represents clients in both environmental compliance and litigation matters arising under state and federal law. Her environmental litigation experience includes a broad range of disputes, including environmental enforcement, groundwater contamination actions, complex toxic tort, product liability, Proposition 65, and landlord-tenant matters relating to lead-based paint and other environmental concerns. 

Julia also advises clients on the environmental compliance issues associated with consumer products and contaminated properties, including the lawful transportation and disposal of solid and hazardous waste. She helps clients navigate the liabilities and obligations associated with abandoned underground storage tanks and other potential nuisances on property they own or are preparing to purchase or sell.  

Julia has tried cases in both state and federal courts, and successfully argued summary judgment and other pre-trial motions for her clients. Julia most often represents clients in defense of claims brought against them, but she has also represented companies and individuals as plaintiffs in cases ranging from tort and contract claims concerning environmental issues to constitutional challenges of local environmental ordinances. 

Julia’s clients include large chemical and transportation companies, individual property owners, and manufacturers and distributors of consumer and personal products throughout the United States.  She has also represented low-income clients as part of the Federal Pro Bono Project and the San Francisco Bar Association’s Justice & Diversity Center.

During law school, Julia interned at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and the San Francisco Bay Conservation & Development Commission. Julia also served as an editor of the Hastings Environmental Law Journal and competed with honors for UC Hastings College of the Law (now UC College of the Law San Francisco)’s negotiation and mediation competition team.