Julie Lynn Fieber

Julie L. Fieber is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, practicing in a wide range of civil litigation areas including environmental claims with an emphasis on groundwater contamination, complex commercial disputes, personal injury and construction defects. Julie has over twenty years’ experience in high stakes litigation at both the state and federal level.Julie is active in the community, serving as a mentor with BALIF (Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom). She has also been involved in various pro bono housing matters working with the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County. Julie is a past recipient of the Fair Shake Award from the Western Center on Law and Poverty in recognition of her excellent work on Cruz v. Sierra Corporate Management, a class action on behalf of low-income residents of a Redwood City mobile home park over illegal and fraudulent rental practices by the park owner.Julie graduated summa cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law. At USF, she served on Law Review, was a Dean’s Scholar, and won Cali Awards for being the top student in torts, civil procedure, contracts, legal research and writing, criminal law, complex civil procedure, and wills and trusts. Julie also was an extern law clerk to Associate Justice Ming W. Chin of the California Supreme Court (Fall 1998).Prior to law school, Julie earned a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from U.C. Santa Barbara, where she was a Regent’s Scholar and a member of the women’s crew team. After graduating from UCSB, Julie spent several years working as a consulting engineer for a mix of government and industry clients. Her primary focus was evaluating the environmental impacts of new vehicle technologies and fuels. Highlights included managing the emissions modeling for the Auto-Oil Air Quality Improvement Research Program, an industry-led effort to evaluate the regional environmental impacts of new vehicle fuels and technologies. Julie also conducted community and stakeholder outreach related to a variety of clean air programs, and developed and conducted courses on emissions modeling and regulations.Julie is also a Registered California Professional Engineer in Chemical Engineering.