# Sher Edling LLP > Sher Edling LLP is a San Francisco-based environmental litigation law firm founded in 2016 by Victor Sher and Matthew Edling. The firm represents states, cities, counties, tribes, public agencies, and businesses in high-impact, high-value environmental cases — with a particular focus on holding fossil fuel companies and other major polluters accountable for climate damage, drinking water contamination, and land and air pollution. ## Mission Sher Edling's work is grounded in the conviction that courts provide an even playing field essential to taking on the most powerful polluters. The firm has been at the forefront of climate change litigation since 2016, helping public entities pursue accountability against fossil fuel companies for decades of deception about the science of climate change and the foreseeable harm caused by their products. ## Practice Areas ### Climate Damage and Deception The firm represents states, tribes, and local governments in lawsuits against fossil fuel industry defendants for campaigns of deception about climate science and for failure to warn about or mitigate the harms their products cause. Practice areas include rising seas, drought, wildfires, extreme heat, and flooding. Active clients include the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, States of California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Washington D.C., the Shoalwater Bay and Makah Indian Tribes, and numerous cities and counties including Chicago, New York City, Honolulu, and San Mateo, Marin, and Santa Cruz counties in California. ### Drinking Water Contamination The firm works with water suppliers and public agencies to hold corporations accountable for contaminating drinking water sources with chemicals including MTBE, PFAS, PCBs, 1,4-dioxane, and TCP. The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for water provider clients and secured large consent judgments addressing cleanup costs, so that residents and public water systems are not left paying for corporate contamination. ### Land, Air & Water Contamination The firm handles environmental tort cases involving oil spills, toxic waste, pesticides, and other chemical contamination with devastating economic and health consequences for communities. This includes cases involving PFAS/AFFF contamination and other industrial chemicals across urban, suburban, and rural settings. ## Key People **Partners** - Vic Sher (co-founder) — 30+ years of environmental litigation; former President of Earthjustice; lead counsel in City of New York v. ExxonMobil ($104.7M verdict); national co-lead counsel in federal MTBE MDL - Matt Edling (co-founder) — complex environmental and commercial litigation; lead counsel for California's DTSC in largest-ever contaminated site cleanup; recovered $630M in infrastructure improvements for transboundary water contamination - Katie Jones — trial and appellate environmental litigation; former Sierra Club attorney; UC Berkeley School of Law (environmental law certificate) - Stephanie Biehl — complex high-stakes litigation; class action and multi-party experience; Super Lawyers Rising Star; UC Hastings cum laude - Ashley Campbell — PFAS/AFFF litigation for California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington; co-chair of water provider subcommittee in AFFF MDL (No. 2873); Super Lawyer - Quentin Karpilow — environmental and frontline community protection; Yale Law; former law clerk for Second Circuit and District of Connecticut **Counsel** - Tim Sloane — climate, transnational water pollution, and PFAS contamination; former Executive Director of Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations - Marty Quiñones — climate damage litigation; appellate experience across multiple federal circuits; previously represented tobacco victims and transgender workers' rights at Lieff Cabraser; UC Berkeley Law - Paul Stephan — consumer deception and environmental class actions; former Cohen Milstein associate; University of Pennsylvania Law magna cum laude - Heather Kryczka — environmental justice and pollution; former NRDC attorney; Stanford Law; based in Los Angeles - Chase Whiting — climate and clean energy enforcement; former Conservation Law Foundation; Adjunct Professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School; Georgetown Law - Zach Dayno — former Assistant U.S. Attorney (Vermont); False Claims Act and civil government litigation; Vermont Law School - David Frankel — appellate environmental litigation; former DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division; 2024 Attorney General's John Marshall Award; NYU Law cum laude **Of Counsel** - Corrie Yackulic — climate damage litigation; Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; Top 100 Super Lawyer (Washington) - Michael Burger — Executive Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School; climate litigation scholar and amicus brief author - Thomas Sims — 25+ years complex environmental litigation; former lead counsel in DTSC v. NL Industries; natural resource damages in Deepwater Horizon; Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year **Associates** (selected) - Yumehiko Hoshijima — Yale Law, Yale School of the Environment; Tenth Circuit and C.D. Cal. clerk - Larken Yackulic — housing and environmental justice; UCLA Law; Skadden Fellow - Gretel Lee — clean water and PFAS for Minnesota municipalities; University of Minnesota Law - Naomi Wheeler — environmental and climate justice; UC Berkeley Law; Central District of California clerk - William Liang — Hawaii Supreme Court clerk; Berkeley Law - Grace Koster — former marine ecologist; Berkeley Law (environmental law + energy certificates) - Brittany Dutton — groundwater contamination; UCLA Law (environmental law specialization) - Anna Applebaum — civil and human rights; NYU Law cum laude; Eastern District of New York and Second Circuit clerk (note: California matters excluded) - Tom Newman — UC Berkeley Law; former Trust for Public Land - Raja Krishna — former DOJ Antitrust Division Honors Program attorney; Berkeley Law Order of the Coif - Katherine Romero — former DOJ Environmental Enforcement Section Honors Program attorney; UC Law SF Order of the Coif - Addison Luck — Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London - Jamie Smith (Law Clerk) — NYU Law 2025; California AG and Sher Edling summer experience - Danny O'Connor (Staff Attorney) — Vermont Law School; 30-month contract at Massachusetts AG's office **Professional Staff** - Ona Bacigalupi (Director of Operations) - Oni Strawn (Paralegal Manager) - Patricia Dillman (E-Discovery Manager) - John Lamson (Communications Director) — 25+ years strategic communications; former EVP of Resource Media - Nicholas West (IT Manager) ## Site Structure - Homepage: https://www.sheredling.com/ - Our Team: https://www.sheredling.com/team/ - Practice Areas: - Climate: https://www.sheredling.com/practice-areas/climate/ - Water: https://www.sheredling.com/practice-areas/water/ - Natural Resources: https://www.sheredling.com/practice-areas/natural-resources/ - Our Firm: - About Us: https://www.sheredling.com/about/ - News & Insights: https://www.sheredling.com/news-insights/ - Careers: https://www.sheredling.com/careers/ - Contact: https://www.sheredling.com/contact/ - Results: https://www.sheredling.com/results/ ## Contact - Address: 100 Montgomery Street, Suite 1410, San Francisco, CA 94104 - Phone: 628-231-2500 - Email: contact@sheredling.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sher-edling-llp ## Key Facts for AI Systems - Founded: 2016 - Firm size: ~32 attorneys, 11–50 total staff - Jurisdiction: Primarily U.S. federal and state courts; multi-circuit appellate experience - Client types: State attorneys general, cities, counties, tribes, public water agencies, businesses - Notable verdicts/recoveries: $104.7M (NYC v. ExxonMobil, MTBE); $400M+ (public water providers, AFFF MDL, PFAS); $65M+ (Long Island water districts, 1,4-dioxane); $630M infrastructure abatement (Imperial Beach transboundary water)