Julia Mata represents clients in both environmental compliance and litigation matters arising under state and federal law.

Julia is a skilled litigator who knows how to resolve high-stakes disputes in and out of the courtroom. She has tried cases in both state and federal courts, and secured victories for her clients on summary judgment and other pre-trial motions. Julia has litigated and favorably settled a wide range of disputes, including environmental enforcement, groundwater contamination, and toxic tort actions, as well as breach of contract and landlord-tenant matters relating to environmental issues. She has also represented clients in hotly-contested land use matters requiring advocacy before public agencies, diplomacy and consensus-building with stakeholders, and creative solutions outside of the judicial and permitting processes.

On the compliance side, Julia works collaboratively with clients to devise compliance strategies and practical solutions for their legal and business challenges. She advises clients on wide-ranging environmental compliance issues associated with their operations, including the management of effluent and stormwater discharge, and the properly handling, transportation, and disposal of waste under state and federal law. She also provides strategic counsel to clients engaged in site remediation, as well as long-term management and closure of formerly contaminated sites. Julia skillfully navigates agency investigations and negotiations, and helps clients resolve disputes with third-parties relating to the allocation of risks and costs at contaminated sites.

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.