Love, Matthew

Matthew Love represents clients before federal and state courts and agencies in areas of natural resource, energy, and environmental law. He has experience representing clients on complex natural resource matters related to hydropower operations for the Columbia River, Missouri River, and Klamath River. Mr. Love previously served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. Mr. Love also served as a Trial Attorney with the Wildlife and Marine Resources Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Love recently returned from a year in Ghana, West Africa where he served as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching environmental and natural resource law and public international law at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Matt represents utilities, renewable energy developers (including hydroelectric, tidal, and wind projects), seafood companies, and government entities. He recently provided the City of Tacoma with relicensing, litigation, and compliance counsel for the 131 MW Cushman Project, resulting in an historic settlement of one of the longest lasting relicensing cases at FERC as well as the settlement of a federal court lawsuit involving a damage claim by the Skokomish Indian Tribe. Mr. Love received his J.D. with a certificate in Environmental and Natural Resource Law from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College in 1995 and his B.A. from Evergreen State College in 1988.