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Hamilton Candee, of counsel to the firm, is a graduate of Princeton University and New York University Law School, where he was a
Root-Tilden Scholar. He served as a law clerk to Judge Thelton E. Henderson of the United States District
Court for the Northern District of California, and as a legislative assistant in the United States Senate.
Mr. Candee practiced law for 23 years with the Natural Resources Defense Council, where, most recently, he
was a Senior Attorney in the San Francisco Office and Co-Director of the NRDC’s Western Water Project.
At NRDC, Mr. Candee was involved in a variety of efforts to restore ecosystems, protect endangered species,
encourage water conservation, and promote other environmental reforms in federal and state water policy.
Mr. Candee was named by California Lawyer magazine a "Lawyer of the Year" in 1999 for his work pursuing
restoration of the San Joaquin River, and was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the NRDC Action Fund.
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