Announcing the Formation of
LIPPE GAFFNEY WAGNER LLP

Dear Clients, Friends, and Colleagues:

         I am pleased to announce my new partnership with Mr. Brian Gaffney and Mr. Keith Wagner, Lippe Gaffney Wagner LLP, commencing January 1, 2009. My contact information remains the same. LGW's new web site is under construction and a link will be provided here soon.

         As many of you are already aware, Mr. Gaffney and Mr. Wagner are dedicated environmental advocates with an impressive range of accomplishments in the areas of environmental protection and public access to information. Brian Gaffney earned his law degree from the New College School of Law in 1993. Mr. Gaffney's practice also focuses on land use, forestry, endangered species and natural resource protection, as well open access to public records and enforcement actions under California's toxics notification law, Proposition 65. Keith Wagner graduated from the King Hall School of Law at UC Davis in 2000. Mr. Wagner's practice also focuses on land use and natural resource protection, as well as surface mine regulation and providing counsel on citizens' constitutionally reserved rights of initiative and referendum. We are also pleased to announce that we look forward to Mr. Gaffney's associate attorneys, Kelly Franger and Celeste Langille, joining our legal team.

         Lippe Gaffney Wagner LLP's mission is to promote and enforce laws protecting the natural environment and open access to government, to develop comprehensive legal strategies to achieve our clients' environmental protection and public access objectives, to provide representation to the unrepresented wherever possible, to bring top shelf litigation skills to this mission, and to serve the firm's clients responsibly and with sensitivity to their specific needs and goals. Our combined experience includes successful representation of public interest citizen groups, public agencies and individuals in state and federal court and before administrative agencies, and counseling our clients in a broad range of practice areas including state and federal land use and natural resource protection laws, endangered species act litigation, elections laws related to initiative and referendum, and open government and access to information laws.

         Thorough our combined experience, Lippe Gaffney Wagner LLP is uniquely situated to offer a broad range of legal representation and counsel. We hope to hear from you in the new year, and look forward to serving our clients and the environment in the public interest.