Joanne C. Kalas
Experience
Joanne Kalas is an associate in the firm’s Environment, Land Use, and Natural
Resources practice group and counsels clients on environmental litigation,
transactions, and regulatory compliance. She has experience handling complex
environmental litigation and addressing issues related to site remediation,
environmental cost recovery, contaminated property transactions, and compliance
involving CERCLA, RCRA, TSCA, CWA, and state and municipal environmental laws and
regulations.
Before joining Stoel Rives, Joanne practiced as an environmental attorney in New
Jersey. During law school, she interned for the Pace Law Environmental Litigation
Clinic and the UN Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), Defense
Associate
Support Section, and was a delegate for the Republic of the Marshall Islands at the
15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) for the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Seattle, WA
Change in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before starting her legal career, she worked in the
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field of medical education and managed international conventions for the photography
industry.
Professional Honors and Activities
(206) 386-7500 fax
joanne.kalas@stoel.com
Education
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Member, Washington State Bar Association
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Member, King County Bar Association
2010, cum laude
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Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
International Law
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Pace University School of Law, J.D.,
Certificates in Environmental Law and
Presentations
Environmental Litigation Clinic
Philip C. Jessup International Law
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“Contractor Liability,” Environmental Audits & Site Assessments, Rutgers
Moot Court
University, New Brunswick, NJ, Mar. 15, 2011
Willem C. Vis International
Commercial Arbitration Moot 1L
Appellate Oral Argument Competition,
Publications
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Use Law 2, 24 (Wash. State Bar Ass’n), Aug. 2015
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Second Place
“Clean Water Rule: The Ebb and Flow of ‘Waters of the US,’” 41 Envtl. & Land
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University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, B.A., with honors, International
“Clean Water Rule: Increasingly Troubled Waters” 41 Envtl. & Land Use Law 3,
Studies, focus in Political Science and
14 (Wash. State Bar Ass’n), Nov. 2015
East Asia, 1997
UNC Honors Thesis Research Grant
Recipient
Duke University Japanese Language
Speech Contest, Second Place
Admissions
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Washington
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New Jersey
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New York
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District Court of New Jersey
Languages