PUBLICATIONS/SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Smart Mama’s Green Guide: Simple Steps to Reduce Your Child’s Toxic Chemical Exposure, Hachette Book Group USA, Center Street, June, 2009
• “Smart Mama’s Green Guide: Reducing Toxic Chemicals in Your Baby’s Environment,” The Pump Station, Hot Topics Lecture Series, 2004, 2005, 2006
• “Smart Mama’s Green Guide: Reducing Toxins in Your Child’s Environment,” Beach Babies, September, 2005
• “Things That Creep In The Night: A Mold Primer,” 21st Annual Real Property Retreat, California State Bar, Real Property Section, 2002
• “A Primer on Drafting Contractual Provisions to Cure Environmental Impairments,” California Real Property Journal, Summer/Fall, 2001
• “Pandora’s Box: The Internet’s Uncensored, Informal Culture has Created Defamation Issues that Require Businesses to Educate, Train and Supervise their Employees,” Daily Journal: Verdicts & Settlements, February 4, 2000
• “Stigma of contaminated Properties – Does It Exist,” International Right of Way Association Education Seminar, 1999
• “Environmental Jeopardy And the Answer Is . . .,” International Right of Way Association Education Seminar, 1999

PUBLISHED OPINIONS

• Nixon-Egli Equipment Co. v. John A. Alexander, et al., 949 F. Supp. 1435 (C.D. Cal. 1996)

Email: JTggart@ddsffirm.com
Phone: (213) 624-8407  Ext. 150

EDUCATION

• J.D., Southwestern University School of Law, cum laude, 1995, Moot Court Honor’s Board, Order of the Barristers
• B.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1990, Engineering Science; Highest GPA in Major, Dean’s Honor List, President’s Honor List, , Tau Beta P

PRACTICE AREAS

• Environmental Litigation and Compliance
• Consumer Product Labeling and Proposition 65
• Eminent Domain
• Business and Real Property Litigation
• Inverse Condemnation

COURT ADMISSIONS

• California Bar, 1995
• United States District Court, Central District of California, 1995
• United States District Court, Northern District of California, 2000
• United States District Court, Eastern District of California, 2000
• United States District Court, Southern District of California, 2000
• United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2003

MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

• South Shores Homeowners Association, Secretary (2005), President (2004), Board Member (2003 and 2006)
• Chair, Environmental Law Subsection (South), California State Bar, Real Property Section
• Former Commissioner with the Los Angeles City Environmental Affairs Commission. (Commissioner 1996-2000 and 2004-2005; President, 2000-2002, Vice-President, 2003-2004)
• Volunteer, Children’s Health Environmental Coalition, 2005 – present, and Contributor, CHEC Monthly Report