Ed Quevedo is a Partner and Chair of the Sustainability Practice Group at Paladin Law Group. He has over 25 years of experience advising clients on domestic and international environmental and health & safety (EHS) law compliance and litigation matters, sustainability planning and program development, and strategic EHS program development and performance counseling, both as an attorney and consulting advisor. He began to advise corporations regarding and teach university courses on sustainable development and corporate responsibility in 1994, during a period of intense program development, client advising, and university lecturing throughout Europe.
Mr. Quevedo provides his clients with traditional EHS compliance counseling and international EHS auditing program development, implementation of environmental management systems (EMS) and Sustainability Management Systems (SMS), sustainable development strategy, land use and natural resources law, green building and sustainable master planning, and water rights and water law & policy. He has also pioneered the implementation of Regenerative Management Systems (RMS), which have the potential to move organizations beyond sustainable development.
Mr. Quevedo began his GHG and carbon reduction management practice in Europe in 1994, and more recently has broad expertise in advising large multinational clients on AB32 and related national and international greenhouse gas reduction protocols. His clients include large multinational private sector companies in the high technology, wine, agricultural, food and beverage, life sciences, biotechnology, automotive and manufacturing industries, major colleges and universities, and public agencies at the municipal and state levels.
During his legal career, Mr. Quevedo has argued cases before the California Supreme Court, the International Board of Arbitrators in The Hague, and the European Court of Justice. He has led high-impact pro bono litigation teams in important Civil Rights, Clean Water Act, and environmental damages recovery litigation in public interest cases brought in state and federal courts. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors, and Vice Chair, of the Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance (www.mswg.org).
