Profile
Ally Lizano counsels public and private sector clients through the complexities of environmental laws and regulations. She litigates in both state and federal court and provides compliance advice relating to environmental laws such as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Air Act (CAA) Risk Management Program, and the state counterpart laws and regulations. Ally’s practice also includes consumer product defense and regulatory compliance in California.
As part of her environmental enforcement defense practice, Ally represents clients dealing with enforcement matters with various state and federal agencies. This includes matters involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the State Water Resources Control Board and its Regional Water Quality Control Boards, and the Department of Toxic Substances Control. Additionally, Ally is experienced in environmental site investigation and remediation. She also assists clients with environmental due diligence.
In her consumer product practice, Ally defends clients across the supply chain, including importers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, to ensure compliance with California's Proposition 65. This often involves litigation of claims related to a broad range of consumer products, such as textiles, personal care products, household goods, and food and beverages.
Capabilities
Experience
- Assisted and represented retailers and manufacturers of consumer products (including food products) in complex and non-complex Proposition 65 litigation in various California state courts.°
- Assisted representing a pharmaceutical company in breach of contract arbitration.°
- Assisted representing fireworks company in complex civil groundwater contamination damages litigation in California state court.°
- Assisted representing municipal entities with writ challenges of NPDES permit provisions.
- Represented current landowner in groundwater contamination litigation against former landowner in federal court in California.°
- Counseled clients regarding the applicability of various environmental laws.°
- Advised domestic and international manufacturers and retailers of consumer products (including food products) on compliance with Proposition 65.°
- Assisted in counseling clients on funding options for groundwater remediation.°
- Assisted arguing that California Insurance Code covered client’s environmental claim.°
- Assisted regional grocer in developing Standard Operating Procedure for Proposition 65 compliance.°
- Assisted in counseling developer regarding options for potential purchase of a contaminated site.°
- Reviewed land use covenants entered between clients and Regional Water Boards, Department of Toxic Substances Control, and municipalities to counsel clients regarding scope of permissible property uses.°
- Assisted client in obtaining a variance from a Regional Water Board land use covenant.°
- Facilitated negotiations for Proposition 65 settlements for consumer products (including food products) for various clients.°
- Researched and assisted developing regional grocer Standard Operating Procedure for transportation of hazardous waste to comply with RCRA and California Department of Toxic Substances Control regulations.°
- Reviewed right-of-way agreements across dozens of adjacent parcels to determine scope of opportunities for easement holder.°
- Advised municipal water district on risk of claim for tortious interference.°
- Counseled grocer and retailer clients on compliance with California’s Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Lizano prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Ally was an associate at a California-based law firm
- Legal Research Assistant, Texas A&M X-Grant, 2019-2020
- Research Fellow, National Agricultural Law Center, 2018-2019
- Summer Law Clerk, U.S. Department of Justice, ENRD, 2018
Recognition & Leadership
- Member, Environmental Law Institute, 2021-Present
- Emerging Leaders Initiative, 2022-Present
- Member, Sacramento County Bar Association, 2021-Present
- Member, Kappa Kappa Gamma Sacramento Valley Alumae Association, 2022-Present
- Member, Groundwater Resources Association, 2021-2023
- Member, Proposition 65 Clearinghouse, 2020-Present
- Member, Sacramento Metro EDGE, 2020-2023
- Member, Anthony M. Kennedy American Inn of Court, 2021-2023
- Member, Texas A&M University School of Law Bar Passage Mentor, 2021
- Lifetime Member, CalAggie Alumni Association
Credentials
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J.D., magna cum laude, Texas A&M University School of Law, 2020
- Order of the Coif
- National Order of Scribes
- Concentrations in environmental and water law
- Executive Editor, Texas A&M Journal of Property Law
- President and Co-Founder of the Agriculture Law Society
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B.S., University of California at Davis, 2017
- Student Commencement Speaker, 2017
- California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California