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James A. Bruen is a partner in the firm's Environmental Practice. Mr. Bruen has over 30 years of criminal and civil litigation and business counseling experience. His practice includes representation of industry, universities and governmental institutions, in domestic and international civil and criminal environmental proceedings, including environmental enforcement actions, cost-recovery litigation, natural resource damage litigation, toxic tort cases, product liability actions and administrative proceedings involving the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Federal Insecticide Fungicide & Rodenticide Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, Proposition 65, and related state and local laws. He advises clients in the United States and abroad about siting and closing facilities; product stewardship; environmental, health and safety management systems; conducting environmental audits, investigations, feasibility studies and remediations; and oversight of international environmental and products litigation.

Prior to joining Farella, Mr. Bruen was a founding and senior partner of Landels Ripley & Diamond's Environmental Law Department. Mr. Bruen had been an Enforcement Attorney for the Federal Communications Commission and thereafter an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. In that capacity he prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases including murders, armed bank robberies, smuggling, narcotics, fraud and the well-known "Alcatraz Indians Case." He also defended complex civil litigation involving medical and other scientific issues and served as Chief of (the United States Attorney's) Civil Division.

Mr. Bruen is a widely known author and lecturer in environmental and products liability law. He earned his professional degree from Stanford Law School.