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Joanna is an experienced legal counsel advising clients on compliance, sustainability, and litigation/claim resolution while building collaborative alliances, advancing corporate objectives and mitigating risk. Joanna's expertise spans multiple disciplines, including environmental, health, and safety; negotiating agreements; litigation and administrative disputes; legislative and regulatory advocacy; external stakeholder engagement; development of sustainability programs and policies; human resources; and fatality/catastrophe investigations. Joanna's work to support sustainable business growth includes the development of global environmental compliance audit programs and procedures and counseling clients on global water stewardship initiatives. In her role as environmental counsel, Joanna has advised clients on achieving and maintaining compliance; enforcement defense; compliance audits and internal investigations; site investigations and remediation; reporting and voluntary disclosure; permitting; water rights; consultant contracting and management; and environmental due diligence in real estate transactions and in mergers and acquisitions.