Olivia Molodanof

Olivia Molodanof is a critical member of the team when assisting clients with environmental issues involving regulation, compliance, enforcement, and litigation.

Olivia's practice focuses on environmental enforcement defense of corporations, municipalities, and individuals. She advises clients in responding to environmental incidents, federal and state litigation, administrative actions and appeals, citizen suits, and crisis management.

She has been responsible for taking depositions, working closely with experts, coordination of major document productions, information requests issued under federal and state law, managing witness interviews, and providing on-scene support in the aftermath of an energy storage facility incident. She also assists clients in negotiating site remediation cleanup and cost-recovery matters, including at major Superfund sites in Environmental Protection Agency Regions 9 and 10.

Olivia is passionate about her pro bono work at the firm, particularly voting rights and election law, immigration, and environmental justice issues.

While in law school at UC Hastings, Olivia was a judicial extern for the Honorable A. James Robertson II of the Superior Court of California. She also served as the Executive Manager of the Hastings Environmental Law Journal and was a board member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team.