Tim Swickard

Background

About Tim Swickard

Timothy Swickard is a partner in the Sacramento office of Lewis Brisbois and Co-Chair of the Environmental, Energy, Land Use & Natural Resources Practice. Mr. Swickard was the former Director and Chief Counsel for Cal/EPA Department of Toxic Substances Control under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. His law practice focuses on federal, state, and local government relations for permitting and licensure of Energy development projects, regulatory due diligence and compliance, and government enforcement defense and litigation in the legal practice areas of energy, environmental, real estate development and transportation. Mr. Swickard’s undergraduate major at University of California, Davis was Biochemistry, providing him with an extensive substantive hard science and chemistry background to apply to the technical environmental, engineering, laboratory analysis, and consumer product issues that arise in his practice.Before commencing his legal practice, Mr. Swickard served as CEO of Mapes Ranch Inc, a geothermal energy development company. Tim is also a frequent speaker and writer on energy and environmental law developments in California and throughout the country.