Earthjustice Hires Law Leader as it Pursues Species Protections - Bloomberg Law
Earthjustice has brought aboard a new general counsel, Conchita Lozano-Batista, as the group ramps up efforts to protect endangered and threatened species.
The former labor and employment lawyer succeeds K. Kelley McKenzie, who retired after nearly six years as the San Francisco-based organization’s general counsel, according to his LinkedIn account.
Lozano-Batista in her last job was chair of the Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group, which assists the city and county of San Francisco and its labor standards enforcement office in evaluating industries engaged in the manufacture and sale of goods.
Earthjustice, founded in 1971, has filed more than 200 lawsuits and sued the Trump administration more than 130 times, either on its own or together with other groups, in the last four years. It emerged as the victor in 46 of the 55 cases that ended with rulings on the merits, according to the organization.
The group announced last July that it would launch the Biodiversity Defense Program to provide a command center to coordinate legal efforts and the fight for stronger protections of endangered and threatened species and ecosystems.
In July 2020, the group won a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that spared dozens of grizzly bears from state-sanctioned hunts.
Earlier in her career, Lozano-Batista was a lawyer at Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, a California law firm, according to LinkedIn.
Earthjustice’s most recent federal tax filing for 2019-20 shows her prdecessor, McKenzie, was paid $244,690 for that year.
Last month, the group brought aboard Ebony Griffin, a former staff attorney with the Public Interest Law Center, as senior legislative counsel in Washington.
Earthjustice has 14 regional offices, 170 lawyers and more than 630 legal proceedings underway, according to its website. Among the topics of its current legal battles are drilling in Alaska, toxic algae blooms in Florida, leaking coal ash ponds in Illinois and oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.
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