William C. Mumby

Wil has particular expertise on California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) matters, including technical issues relating to water resources, air quality, transportation, climate change, noise, and historic and cultural resources. He provides advice to tribal, public agency, renewable energy developer, and nonprofit clients on environmental review issues arising under CEQA as well as the National Environmental Policy Act and other state and federal environmental statutes.

An active member of the firm’s Native American law and policy group, Wil helps advise tribal clients on a broad range of environmental, land use, and economic development issues, including fee-to-trust acquisitions. He also advises tribes on strategies to facilitate co-management of natural and cultural resources on public lands with state and federal agencies.

Prior to joining the firm, Wil clerked for Judge Harold E. Kahn and Judge Ethan P. Schulman in the San Francisco Superior Court’s Law and Motion Department.

During law school, Wil helped lead Karuk-Berkeley Collaborative Legal, a joint project of Berkeley Law and the Karuk Tribe that developed strategies to protect the Klamath River and its salmon population. He also served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ecology Law Quarterly, and clerked for Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division.