Russell McGlothlin

Mr. McGlothlin is a Shareholder in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Santa Barbara office and a member of the Water & Public Lands and Renewable Energy Practice Groups. His experience includes a broad range of water use issues in California and the western United States, including water right permitting, adjudication of groundwater rights, conjunctive water use, water transfers, water quality, recycled water projects, and environmental matters, including CEQA and ESA compliance.

Mr. McGlothlin represents private companies, municipalities, special districts and individual landowners with transactional negotiations, litigation and administrative agency proceedings. In his practice, he has defended groundwater water rights in several groundwater basin adjudications, assisted in post-judgment proceedings in multiple on-going groundwater basin adjudication judgments, prosecuted water rights applications and petitions before the California State Water Resources Control Board, and negotiated and drafted a variety of transactional agreements concerning water resources. He is the author of several chapters concerning California groundwater law within the Groundwater Water Resources Agency’s Groundwater Management Handbook. He also regularly speaks on water law-related matters before industry groups and publishes related articles within trade publications.

Mr. McGlothlin is a board member with the Santa Barbara-based Community Environmental Council, is the liaison for Brownstein’s Corporate Partnership with the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and is an active member of the Santa Barbara community, regularly hosting fundraising events for several local non-profit organizations.