Kenneth B. Finney
Principal
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- Administrative Law
- Brownfields - Environmental
- Insurance Recovery
- Workplace Health and Safety
- Environmental
- Land Use
- Litigation
- Reed College (B.A., 1978)
- University of California, Berkeley (M.S., 1987)
- University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D., 1987)
- California (1987)
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1987)
- Northern District of California (1987)
- Central District of California (1991)
- Eastern District of California (2000)
- American Bar Association
Mr. Finney has had extensive experience with California and federal statutes and regulatory programs in the areas of hazardous substances, natural resources and worker safety. He also has extensive experience with land-use permitting and litigation. His practice has included serving as: outside counsel for major corporations handling the full range of environmental OSHA and land-use regulatory, litigation and transaction matters; litigation counsel on environmental and land-use suits in federal and state courts; and, administrative law counsel in proceedings, including before the federal Environmental Appeals Board, with respect to governmental environmental, worker safety and land-use actions.
Recent engagements include: manufacturing Environmental, Health and Safety counseling; water damage/mold regulatory matters and insurance recovery litigation; state and local permitting and litigation related to large land-use projects such as backbone telecommunication projects, large commercial retail development and city-wide outdoor advertising; and RCRA and CERCLA administrative actions related to Brownfield development projects. In the recent past, Mr. Finney has handled significant enforcement and variance proceedings before the California Occupational Health and Safety Administration, Air Quality Management Districts and Regional Water Quality Control Boards.
Prior to joining Beveridge and Diamond, Mr. Finney was a partner for thirteen years at a large national law firm practicing in environmental and land-use law, and related insurance recovery law. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Finney worked in the California Governor’s Office as the Assistant to the Governor for Toxic Substances Control, and worked in the California Legislature as a Consultant to the California State Senate Committee on Natural Resources, and as a Legislative Aide for a State Senator whose district spanned from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. In those capacities, he drafted and negotiated numerous statutes and administrative policy initiatives in toxic substances control and resource protection. Among other things, he drafted the legislation creating CalOSHA’s Worker Right-to-Know Hazard Communication System and was responsible for the administrative creation of the Division of Toxic Substances Control.
- Clear Channel Outdoor: land-use litigation counsel.
- Tyco Electronics, Inc.: EHS regulatory and litigation counsel.
- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.: environmental and insurance recovery counsel.
- Koch Industries, EHS regulatory counsel.
