Richard E. Hammond is Of Counsel to the firm. Mr. Hammond’s practice emphasizes counseling, transactional, and administrative matters related to land use, natural resources, energy, environment, and real estate; and strategic counseling and general corporate matters for start-up companies, including energy and environmental technology companies.

Mr. Hammond graduated from Harvard College cum laude in 1967, and from Columbia University Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1970, where he also was an International Fellow. He has been admitted to practice in California and New York. He served as Energy Staff and Legal Counsel to the California Coastal Commission; Senior Energy Advisor in the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research; Deputy Secretary for Resources, State of California Resources Agency; and Special Assistant to the California Governor during the Medfly Crisis. From 1986-2000, Mr. Hammond was an Environmental Partner at Heller, Ehrman, White, and McAuliffe, a San Francisco-based international law firm, where he specialized in complex land use and environmental permitting matters, remediation of contaminated properties, and environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions. Mr. Hammond founded and is a Board Member of the Marin Conservation Corps, a community-based, nonprofit young adult service, training, and education organization.