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Kathleen H. Goodhart is a partner in the Litigation department, the head of the Bay Area Business Litigation practice, and head of the Environmental practice group. She currently serves on the firm's Management Committee. She joined Cooley in 1993 and is resident in the San Francisco office.
Ms. Goodhart's practice consists of environmental litigation and counseling, and commercial litigation. She represents clients on a variety of environmental claims, including soil and groundwater contamination, air quality, CEQA and NEPA compliance, asbestos, mold, lead paint and Proposition 65. She also counsels clients on environmental risk management and allocation in business transactions, environmental remediation, sale, lease and development of contaminated property, and regulatory compliance issues.
Ms Goodhart's business litigation practice covers numerous areas in addition to environmental claims, including commercial contract, white collar criminal defense, securities, insurance law, fraud, trade secret, unfair competition, and product defect. Some examples of Ms. Goodhart's commercial litigation experience include: defending a former Marsh executive in a ten month trial regarding the New York Attorney General's indictment for fraud, larceny and antitrust violations; representing companies in contested Chapter 11 proceedings involving tens of thousands asbestos claims; and defending a company in a federal court trial pertaining to conversion of 747 aircraft from passenger to freighter configuration.
Before joining Cooley, Ms. Goodhart served as a law clerk to the Honorable W. Stephen Thayer, III, associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
Ms. Goodhart received a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1991. At Hastings, she was an associate editor of the International and Comparative Law Journal in which she authored a note concerning the Basel Convention regulating the transboundary movement and disposal of hazardous waste. While attending Hastings, she externed for the San Francisco District Attorney's office. Ms. Goodhart received an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1988.
Education- University of California, Hastings College of the Law
JD, 1991 - University of Colorado at Boulder
BA Business Administration, 1988
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Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Bar Association of San Francisco
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