Maureen F. Gorsen

Located in Sacramento, Maureen Gorsen focuses her practice on providing strategic public policy, litigation and regulatory advocacy and counsel to product manufacturers, brand owners, industrial facilities and landowners. She represents clients in enforcement defense and regulatory compliance issues before administrative agencies in Sacramento and numerous state capitals, and provides international permit and compliance counsel on environmental, product and supply chain regulation issues. With laws governing corporate social responsibility on the rise, Ms. Gorsen assists clients in developing their corporate policies to meet sustainability, chemical supply chain transparency, anti-slavery and human trafficking, conflict minerals and related statutes.

Ms. Gorsen is the former director of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, where she directed the regulation of solid and hazardous waste and soil and water cleanups under CERCLA, RCRA, water and brownfields laws, as well as spearheaded the California Green Chemistry Initiative and the new laws governing toxics in products sold in California.

Ms. Gorsen is the former general counsel of the California Environmental Protection Agency, where she oversaw policies and activities that enforce California’s environmental laws. She is also the former general counsel for the California Natural Resources Agency. Ms. Gorsen has been ranked in Best Lawyers since 2013.