Environmental Leadership Program

Simeon Herskovits is a staff attorney and acting director of the Western Environmental Law Center's southwest office where he is currently representing a coalition of national, statewide, and local citizens' groups fighting the Cadiz Project, an attempt by Southern California's Metropolitan Water District to drain the aquifer underlying a large area of the Mojave Desert including the Mojave National Preserve and five federal wilderness areas. Simeon has worked on cases on timber harvesting, forest management plans, mining, low-level military overflights, and local land use regulation. Previously, Simeon clerked for Judge Robert Kelleher of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and spent several years with Skadden, Arps, in New York.