Meet Our Team
2019 Staff fishing trip aboard the F/V Outer Limits
Attorneys
Vic Sher
Partner

Vic Sher
Partner
Matt Edling
Partner

Matt Edling
Partner
Over his career, Matt, frequently in tandem with public counsel, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for clients. Matt understands the need to balance the public and policy implications involved in environmental litigation, and successfully brought stakeholders together in and out of the courtroom to achieve lasting success. Matt also has extensive experience in significant commercial matters, involving fraud, securities, insurance bad faith, consumer, financial litigation, and contract claims. Matt has been appointed to leadership positions in multi-party and class actions in state and federal courts, as well as primary counsel in multiparty actions throughout the country.
Matt’s successes led to The Recorder naming him as one of the top fifty California attorneys with under ten years of practice (2012), and he has been named among the highest class of attorneys for professional ethics and legal skills, with an AVPreeminent rating by Martindale Hubbell.
Corrie Yackulic
Of Counsel

Corrie Yackulic
Of Counsel
Michael Burger
Of Counsel

Michael Burger
Of Counsel
Michael is a widely published scholar, and he is author or co-author of numerous high impact papers on climate change litigation, including State Public Nuisance Claims and Climate Change Adaptation, The Law and Science of Climate Change Attribution, and The Status of Climate Change Litigation: A Global Review.
Previously Michael was an associate professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, where he was founder and director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Clinical Externship program. He also served as a litigator in the Environmental Law Division of New York City’s Office of the Corporation Counsel.
Michael is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was an articles editor for the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law; and of Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Tim Sloane
Senior Associate

Tim Sloane
Senior Associate
Before joining Sher Edling, Tim was the Executive Director of the nonprofit Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, where he advocated for sustainable natural resource management and habitat protection for commercially valuable marine fish species. Tim’s work bridged the legal and political gap between conservation and consumptive use.
In 2013, he earned his law degree with honors from Golden Gate University, where he was a member of the Environmental Law Journal and GGU’s National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition team. He is a 2006 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Katie Jones
Senior Associate

Katie Jones
Senior Associate
Before joining Sher Edling, Katie was an attorney at the Sierra Club, where she worked on a wide variety of environmental matters, including challenges to new fossil fuel infrastructure and cases to improve government transparency and to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals. Previously, she clerked for Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr.
Katie received her law degree in 2014 from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she earned a certificate in environmental law and was awarded the Landis Prize for Water Law. During law school, Katie served as an editor for the California Law Review and Ecology Law Quarterly. Prior to attending law school, Katie worked as a Fulbright Fellow in an indigenous community in Mexico, focusing on learning from traditional environmental knowledge to diversify local agriculture. She is a 2008 graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Marty Quiñones
Senior Associate

Marty Quiñones
Senior Associate
Before joining Sher Edling, Marty represented consumers, employees, Marty tried two cases to jury verdicts verdict 2014 and 2015 against major tobacco companies on behalf of the families of smokers who died from tobacco-related diseases. Both trials resulted in liability verdicts for the plaintiff, and significant monetary recoveries through jury award or settlement post-verdict.
Marty also successfully represented a transgender civilian employee of the Army pro bono who was wrongfully barred from the public women’s restroom facilities in her workplace (Lusardi v. Dept. of the Army Appeal No. 1201133395). The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s decision in Ms. Lusardi’s favor was the first ruling in any jurisdiction that declares preventing a transgender employee access to gender-appropriate restrooms is sex discrimination in violation of federal law
In 2013, Marty earned his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he was the supervising editor for the California Law Review, the marketing editor for the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, the treasurer of the Boalt Hall Queer Caucus and a chapter board member of Law Students for Reproductive Justice.
Adam Shapiro
Senior Associate

Adam Shapiro
Senior Associate
Before joining Sher Edling, Adam worked at The Nature Conservancy and for both plaintiff- and defense-side civil litigation firms. Adam clerked for the Honorable Samuel Conti at the Northern District of California, and was a staff attorney at the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District.
Adam received his law degree from Stanford University in 2009, where he was an editor of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal and externed at NRDC. Prior to attending law school, Adam earned a public policy degree from Harvard University, and focused on environmental policy at the Government Accountability Office. He is 2000 graduate of the University of Rochester.
Stephanie Biehl
Senior Associate

Stephanie Biehl
Senior Associate
Before joining Sher Edling, Stephanie was successful in obtaining multi-million-dollar recoveries through complex cases in the business, consumer, employment, securities, derivative, and class action fields. She and her teams were routinely appointed Lead Counsel and Class Counsel in a variety of state and federal cases.
Stephanie was a judicial extern for Senior District Judge Charles R. Breyer for the Northern District of California, and she graduated cum laude from UC Hastings College of the Law. While at Hastings, she earned her concentration in Civil Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, was an award-winning member of the nationally-renowned Hastings Trial Team, and was the Executive Notes Editor of the Hastings Business Law Journal.
Prior to law school, Stephanie attended Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) where she received her B.S in Business Administration and her B.A. in Spanish Studies. She graduated summa cum laude, as the valedictorian of her class. Stephanie also had the honor of being the Undergraduate Commencement Speaker and receiving the highest leadership and excellence awards from her academic schools, the Cross Country team, multiple student life groups, the NDNU Board of Trustees, and the City of Belmont.
Nicole Teixeira
Senior Associate

Nicole Teixeira
Senior Associate
Quentin Karpilow
Associate

Quentin Karpilow
Associate
Professional Staff
Oni Strawn
Senior Paralegal

Oni Strawn
Senior Paralegal
Ona Bacigalupi
Director of Operations

Ona Bacigalupi
Director of Operations
Elizabeth Cheung
Paralegal

Elizabeth Cheung
Paralegal
Casey Vaez
Paralegal

Casey Vaez
Paralegal
Savannah Eldridge
Administrative & Case Assistant

Savannah Eldridge
Administrative & Case Assistant
Kevin Kirchner
Director of Communications

Kevin Kirchner
Director of Communications
Over nearly four decades, Kevin has developed, coordinated and implemented hundreds of earned and paid media campaigns on issues that include climate change, clean energy, protecting the Arctic Refuge, old-growth forests, wildlife, water supplies and fisheries, and holding the oil industry accountable for MTBE cleanup.
Kevin launched his own consulting firm in 2009 after more than 11 years at a progressive media firm. In both roles he developed campaign strategies, oversaw message research projects, and wrote, produced, and/or placed television, radio, print, and online advertising, for which he shared in more than 20 national awards.
Prior to that, Kevin spent eight years at Earthjustice where he was Vice President for Policy, Legislation, and Communications for much of his tenure; worked on Capitol Hill, including stints with the House Agriculture and Interior Committees; and served as an environment and energy staffer for New Jersey Governor Tom Kean where he had a hand in developing the nation’s first statewide climate change initiative.
He graduated from the University of Oregon Law School and is an inactive member of the Oregon and Washington, DC bars.
John Lamson
Director of Media Relations

John Lamson
Director of Media Relations
After earning his BA in English from the University of Notre Dame, John got his start at Fenton Communications and served as press secretary and spokesperson on political campaigns in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-90’s. John serves on the board of directors at Advocates for the West.
Chuck Savitt
Director of Strategic Client Relationships

Chuck Savitt
Director of Strategic Client Relationships
Over the past ten years, a major component of Chuck’s work has been developing strategies and information tools for cities and local government to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and to plan for and adapt to disruptions caused by climate change.
Chuck currently serves on the Board of the Windward Fund and the Center for Good Food Purchasing, ReFed and Quercus Investment Partners, LLP. He has previously served on the boards of the Tides Foundation, the Agua Fund, and Hubbard Brook Research Foundation. He received his BS from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.