Perkins Coie Adds Environment and Real Estate Litigator Ray Hartman to San Diego Office

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Ray Hartman has joined the firm’s Environment, Energy and Resources (EER) practice as a partner in the San Diego office. Hartman is an experienced environmental litigator and has represented clients in complex cases involving such issues as groundwater contamination, toxic exposure and real estate disputes.

Hartman focuses his practice on environmental litigation, as well as real estate and commercial litigation. His successes include securing a reversal of a $100 million judgment against a major pipeline company and a favorable settlement in environmental litigation alleging $400 million in damages related to a sports stadium.

Hartman also currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he teaches a class entitled Experiential Advocacy Practicum: Litigation. He is an active member of the local community, including through pro bono counsel and in serving local charitable organizations.

He joins Perkins Coie from Cooley LLP. Ray earned his B.A., cum laude, in political science from the University of San Diego; an M.A. in political science, law and public policy from the University of Southern California; and his J.D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law.