Richard Montevideo

About Richard Montevideo

Richard Montevideo has chaired the Environmental Law Practice Group at Rutan & Tucker in Irvine since 1992 and is a partner in the firm's Government and Regulatory section. He specializes in environmental law, with an emphasis on Superfund and cost recovery litigation under CERCLA, RCRA, California's Hazardous Substance Account Act, and related legal theories. He has worked on matters involving several National Priorities List Superfund sites, including the San Gabriel Valley site, the McColl site in Fullerton, and the Montrose Chemical site in Los Angeles. He also handles other state and federal Superfund sites across Southern California. His practice covers both transactional and litigation environmental work for public entities and private clients. He has been admitted in California since 1984 and is also admitted before the Central District of California, the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his J.D. with honors from Ohio State University, where he served on the Ohio State Law Review.

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California State Bar No. 116051 (Active admitted 1984-12-03)