Jennifer T. Taggart - a Los Angeles, United States Environmental Litigation and Compliance Lawyer

Los Angeles Environmental Litigation and Compliance Lawyer

Updated: 05/07/2026

Areas of Practice

Environmental Litigation and Compliance
Consumer Product Labeling and Proposition 65
Eminent Domain
Business and Real Property Litigation
Inverse Condemnation

Attorney Information

Overview

Jennifer Taggart has twenty-five years of experience assisting clients with their environmental, real property, eminent domain and consumer product safety and labeling matters. Her consumer product safety and labeling practice includes all aspects of manufacturing, importing, distributing and selling consumer products, including design standards, labeling and other compliance points, such as Proposition 65 litigation and compliance. As part of this practice, Ms. Taggart has developed procedure manuals and trained staff to identify consumer products requiring labeling. Ms. Taggart is intimately familiar with Proposition 65 and related state law claims. She has represented several clients in various Proposition 65 litigation matters. She also assists clients with Proposition 65 compliance, including appropriate warnings and reformulation.

Her environmental law practice includes litigation, regulatory counseling, regulatory development, and transactional issues. Her specialties include air quality and permitting, and environmental remediation and cost recovery litigation. She has broad experience in all aspects of federal, state and local environmental laws, including air quality, air toxics, solid wastes, hazardous wastes, hazardous materials, underground storage tanks, and water quality and wastewater issues. She litigates and negotiates compliance issues arising under federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations before and with judicial and administrative bodies.

Ms. Taggart's experience in cost recovery litigation includes private cost recovery actions under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA"), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), and related state common law claims. She represents potentially responsible parties in both complex settlement negotiations and in alternate dispute resolution proceedings. She is also experienced in obtaining environmental insurance coverage for her clients. She has successfully resolved a number of environmental coverage cases against insurers for clients with contaminated properties.

Ms. Taggart assists clients with real estate transactions, particularly when complicated by environmental matters. She has assisted clients with identifying environmental issues and found solutions to achieve her clients' goals. Ms. Taggart's eminent domain practice includes eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and CEQA and NEPA compliance. Ms. Taggart has successfully represented both public agencies and private property owners in all stages of eminent domain proceedings, and dealt with the entire breadth of legal issues, including "right to take" challenges, claim for product enhancement and blight, severance damages, relocation assistance benefits, prejudgment possession, inverse condemnation, regulatory takings, loss of business goodwill, leaseholds, and easements.

Prior to practicing law, Ms. Taggart was an environmental engineer for Rockwell International Corporation, Rocketdyne Division. She handled air permitting in jurisdiction of the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District, and compliance with AB 2588, the Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Information and Assessment Act; hazardous materials, business plans and related emergency planning; SARA; and Proposition 65. She was also involved with remedial activities at several facilities.

Ms. Taggart's engineering and compliance experience makes her uniquely suited to assist her clients. Ms. Taggart understands her clients' business operations and their concerns. She provides regulatory counseling and compliance audits. She assists her clients with identifying and preventing problems, as well as solving them.

Education

Legal Education
- Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, California, 1995
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Moot Court Honor’s Board
  Honors: Order of the Barristers
Non Legal Education
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1990
  B.S.
  Honors: Highest GPA in Major, Dean’s Honor List
  Honors: President’s Honor List, Tau Beta Pi
  Major: Engineering Science

Current Employment Position(s)

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Partner | Attorney
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Classes and Seminars

32nd Annual Tax Controversy Institute, California’s Cannabis Industry – Conflicts, Controversies & Opportunities, October 25, 2016
2011 Tax Controversy Institute, Whistleblower Office – What a Taxpayer Representative Must Know, October 2011
AOL Health, Detoxify Your Home, March 22, 2011
CBS The Talk, Tips For A Non Toxic Home, January 4, 2011
US News & World Report, Money, 50 Easy Steps to a Complete Financial Makeover, January 4, 2011
Good Day LA, How Much Lead Is In Your Toys, January 3, 2011
USA Today, Lead in Toys: The Smart Mama Didn’t Come To Play, December 6, 2010
The Doctors television show, Lead in Your Purse, February 2010
Fox & Friends television, Is Your Purse Toxic, January 25, 2010
Fox & Friends After Show, Toxic Purses, January 25, 2010
MSNBC, Trinkets in the Trash After Cadmium Warning, January 14, 2010
Washington Post, Citizen Regulators Take Toy Testing Safety Into Their Own Hands, December 26, 2009
Health 4 Parents, What’s Lurking in My Home?, December 3, 2009
USA Weekend, How to Have a Green Pregnancy, October 4, 2009
American Bar Association, Litigation Section, Inaugural Consumer Products CLE Workshop, Litigation Trends as a Result of the CPSIA
Social Yell, 10 Tips for Safe Drinking Water, August 20, 2009
The News Herald, Four Kitchen Basics Can Clean Entire House, August 14, 2009
Better TV, Homemade Cleaning Recipes, July 17, 2009
Fox & Friends television, Toxic Exposure and Toxins in Your Home, July 18, 2009
Living Green Magazine, Natural Home and Garden, Smart Mama’s Green Guide Helps Parents Protect Children from Toxic Chemicals, July, 2009
Voice America, Go Green Radio with Jill Buck, Smart Mama’s Green Guide, June 26, 2009
New Mom Expo, Anaheim, California, Reducing Your Child’s Toxic Chemical Exposure, June 13, 2009
Baby Boomer Knowledge Center, How to choose safe toys for your grandchildren, May 23, 2009
Pasadena Star News, Warding Off Dangers of Household Chemicals, May 15, 2009
Philadelphia News, Jar No More, May 14, 2009
Pregnancy Awareness Month launch, Santa Monica, Raising Healthy Kids in a Toxic World, May 2, 2009
See Jane Do blog, Blogging for Change – See Jane Do Interviews Members of Green Moms Carnival, April 22, 2009
NY Press, Going Green to Prevent Autism, April 8, 2009
Publishers Weekly, CPSIA Update: Book Community Calmer and Compliant, But Still Confused, March 19, 2009
Go Green Radio, Moms Inspiring Moms to Advocate for a Greener Future for Our Kids, November, 2008
USA Today, Halloween Candy Causes Fright for Chubby Americans, October 6, 2008
True Genius Magazine, Smart Profile: One Smart Mama, September, 2008
Go Green Radio, Going Green for Good Health, July, 2008

Pro Bono Activities

Palos Verdes High School, PVIT, VEX Robotics, Mentor (2017 – present)
Rocking horse Road Homeowners Association, Secretary (2013 – 2017)
Rancho Palos Verdes Infrastructure Management Advisory Committee, Member (2014 – 2016)
ABA Litigation Section, Products Liability Committee, Products Liability Newsletter committee member  Green Moms Carnival, Founder
Green Moms Carnival, Founder
Healthy Child, Healthy World (formerly Children’s Health Environmental Coalition), volunteer, blogger
South Shores Homeowners Association, Secretary (2005), President (2004), Board Member (2003)
Chair, Environmental Law Subsection (South), California State Bar, Real Property Section (2000 – 2006)
Los Angeles City Environmental Affairs Commission. (Commissioner 1996-2000 and 2004-2005; President, 2000-2002, Vice-President, 2003-2004)

Bar Admissions

California, 1995
U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1995
U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 2000
U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 2000
U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 2000
U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2003

Other Affiliations

South Shores Homeowners Association (Secretary (2005), President (2004), Board Member (2003 and 2006))
Environmental Law Subsection (South), California State Bar, Real Property Section (Chair)
Los Angeles City Environmental Affairs Commission (Commissioner 1996-2000 and 2004-2005; President, 2000-2002, Vice-President, 2003-2004)
Children's Health Environmental Coalition (Volunteer (2005-present), Contributor CHEC Monthly Report)

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