June 4, 2007

Smith Joins Firm’s Environmental Practice Group

Alexandra Smith has joined Lane Powell’s Olympia office as Counsel to the Firm in the Environmental Practice Group.

Smith’s practice focuses on environmental and natural resource regulatory issues, and appellate litigation. She has advised clients in resolving liabilities associated with contaminated sites, cleaning up contaminated properties, purchasing contaminated properties, gaining and maintaining regulatory compliance, obtaining permits and completing development projects. She has also represented clients in litigation before the Environmental Hearings Board, and state and federal trial and appellate courts.

Prior to joining Lane Powell, Smith was an Assistant Attorney General, where she was a designated appellate specialist, and represented the Department of Ecology and the Department of Natural Resources on issues related to solid, hazardous, and nuclear wastes; water and air quality; cross-border pollution; forest practices; and tribal treaty rights. She also negotiated aquatic lands leases on behalf of the Department of Natural Resources and advised the Department of Ecology as it developed recommendations for the Governor’s Puget Sound Initiative.

Smith received her J.D., with honors, from the University of Washington Law School, and her B.S., from Brown University.