Professional Overview

Alexandra has a sophisticated real estate and environmental practice and provides clients with transactional and litigation counsel on real estate, environmental, and regulatory matters, including acquisition, disposition, and redevelopment of contaminated sites, development of remedial action strategies, coordination with agencies and environmental consultants, resolution of cleanup liability disputes, permitting issues and regulatory compliance, and insurance recovery for environmental liabilities.

Alexandra also has extensive litigation and alternate dispute resolution experience with issues arising under CERCLA, MTCA, the Clean Water Act, and natural resource damage assessments. In addition to significant cost recovery and cost contribution experience, she offers seasoned counsel on the investigation and remediation of complex, multiparty sediment sites, including advising potentially liable parties and stakeholders on investigation strategies, agency coordination, allocation of past and future cost liabilities, and securing insurance coverage and navigating natural resource damage assessments under state and federal law.

Representative Matters

  • Represents buyers and sellers in complex real estate transactions involving contaminated properties, including advising clients on identifying and allocating liabilities arising from environmental conditions.
  • Manages complex environmental remediation projects, coordinates with environmental consultants to develop remedial action strategies, and advises clients on negotiating with governmental agencies and pursuing regulatory closure.
  • Represents business and industrial clients working through regulatory permitting issues and advises on permit compliance concerns.
  • Represents clients in negotiations with regulators on formal orders for cleanup sites and permit compliance issues.
  • Represents clients in litigation and alternative dispute resolution in cost recovery and cost contribution actions arising under CERCLA and MTCA, including working through allocation processes at multi-party sites.
  • Counsel clients on navigating natural resource damage assessments and represent litigants in natural resource damage disputes.
  • Represents clients in Clean Water Act compliance issues, including assessing applicability of permit requirements to client operations.
  • Represents landowners in real estate transactions for parcels adjacent to Superfund sites, including allocating liabilities, navigating historical insurance coverage issues, and determining future cost responsibility.
  • Advises clients on managing risk and potential liability resulting from federal hazardous waste cleanup laws, including CERCLA, RCRA and MTCA.
  • Represents property owners and developers with respect to potential liabilities resulting from natural resource damage assessments at hazardous waste sites, as well as negotiations with NOAA to minimize natural resource damage assessments.
  • Advises clients regarding insurance coverage issues related to potential environmental liability.

Articles and Presentations

  • Panelist, "'There's only you and me and we just disagree'- Negotiating Contracts in a Post-PFAS World.,"  Spring Conference on Environmental Law, American Bar Association, March 2025
  • Moderator, "ESG 101: Roadmap to Decarbonization," Seattle ESG & Sustainability Conference, August 2024
  • “Environmental Considerations for Real Estate and Development,” Real Property, Probate and Trust Section Midyear Meeting and Conference, Washington State Bar Association, June 2024
  • “Leasing Considerations Related to Hazardous Materials,” Law Seminars International, December 2022
  • “Use of cross-laminated timber may rise in the U.S.,” Westlaw Today, Thomson Reuters, August 2022
  • “Considerations for Transacting Properties with Contamination and Co-Mingled Plumes,” Real Property, Probate and Trust Section Midyear Meeting and Conference, Washington State Bar Association, June 2022
  • “Impacts of ‘forever chemicals’ on real estate transactions,” Reuters Legal News, March 2022
  • “Recent opinion highlights importance of definition of ‘water,’” Reuters Legal News, September 2021
  • Co-author, “U.S. Supreme Court clarifies Superfund law and provides cautionary tale,” Reuters Legal News, July 2021
  • “Advances in Plume Migration Prevention,” Northwest Environmental Business Council, October 2020
  • “Model Toxics Control Act Case Law Update,” Law Seminars International, October 2019
  • “Partnering Attorneys and Consultants—Where Science and the Law Meet,” NEBC, Northwest Remediation Conference, October 2019
  • Co-chair, “Southern Resident Killer Whale Panel,” Environmental and Law Use Law Section Midyear Meeting & Conference, Washington State Bar Association, May 2019
  • “Developing Contaminated and Blighted Properties in Washington,” Case Studies: South Lake Union, Ballard and Fremont, The Seminar Group, August 2018
  • “Special Consideration in Project Development Planning,” Environmental and Law Use Law Section Midyear Meeting & Conference, Washington State Bar Association, May 2017
  • “Impact of EPA’s New Environmental Justice Regulatory Analysis on Remedies at Sediment Sites,” Ninth International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sediments, Battelle Institute, January 2017
  • “The Role of Environmental Forensics,” Northwest Remediation Conference, October 2016
  • “Ethical Considerations for Multi-Party Representation at Aquatic Cleanup Sites,” Environmental and Land Use Law Section Midyear Meeting & Conference, Washington State Bar Association, May 2016
  • Co-author, “Triggering the Insurer’s Duty to Defend for MTCA Claims: Gull Industries, Inc. v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company,” Washington State Bar Association Environmental & Land Use Law Section Newsletter, Volume 41, Number 1, February 2015
  • “A Review of EPA’s First Environmental Justice Analysis at a CERCLA Site,” American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 1, November 2014
  • Author, “A Review of EPA’s First Environmental Justice Analysis in Conjunction with a CERCLA Remediation Plan,” American Bar Association, Section of Environmental, Energy and Resources, 43rd Spring Conference, March 2014

Professional and Civic Involvement

  • Adjunct Professor, University of Washington, Runstad Department of Real Estate
  • Member, Urban Land Institute, Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee
  • Member, Law360 Real Estate Editorial Advisory Board, 2022-2023
  • Board of Directors, Seattle 2030 District, 2019-2022
  • Member, Junior League of Seattle, 2014–2017
  • Board of Directors, Center for Children and Youth Justice, 2012–2015
  • Member, Vanderbilt Law School Alumni Admissions Program

Honors / Awards / Prior Experience

  • Ranked by Chambers USA in the category of Environment, 2025.
  • Repeatedly recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of Environmental Law and Litigation, most recently for 2026.
  • Recognized as a Rising Star (Environmental, Real Estate, Business/Corporate), Washington Super Lawyers, 2018–2025.

Education

Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2011

The University of Texas at Austin B.A., 2006, with highest honors
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Languages

Spanish