Firm Background
Chatten-Brown & Carstens ("the Firm") is a small, public interest law firm established in 1995 by Jan Chatten-Brown after twenty-one years of practicing environmental law in several government law offices. The Firm's practice focuses on environmental, natural resource, land use, municipal, and government law. The Firm offers a wide array of litigation, counseling, and planning services, and litigates in both state and federal court. Its members take pride in providing responsive, individualized, creative, cost effective legal services. The Firm has achieved a high degree of success in the vast majority of our endeavors. For example, in reported appellate cases, the firm has an over 90% success rate.
The Firm primarily represents national, California, and local environmental and community groups, but also represents government agencies and individuals. Firm attorneys provide legal services for clients on issues involving land use, the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"), the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA"), state and federal Endangered Species Acts, regulatory systems, and historic preservation, among others.
The Firm's commitment to its clients ensures a high standard of responsiveness to each individual client's needs and objectives. A brief background on each of the firm's lawyer's follows. Additionally, there is a list of each the Firm's current and past clients, and a summary of the services provided for each of them.
