Margo Hasselman
Margo Hasselman joined the firm as an associate attorney in 2003. She served as an Articles Editor for Ecology Law Quarterly from 2002 to 2003. Also in 2002, she published a Note, Bragg v. W. Va. Coal Association and the Unfortunate Limitation of Citizen Suits Against the State in Cooperative Federalism Regimes, 29 Ecology L. Q. 205 (2002), exploring the implications of an appeals court decision barring a suit for injunctive relief against a state for failure to enforce an environmental statute. In 2003, she was awarded the Alvin and Sadie Landis Prize in Local Government Law and was admitted to the Order of the Coif.
Ms. Hasselman has spoken at the Western Pension and Benefits Conference on “401(k) and Other Fiduciary Litigation” and the Nationwide Teleconference sponsored by Strafford Publications on “Reducing Retiree Benefits: Employer’s Legal Risks and Responsibilities”. Ms. Hasselman has also written and contributed to articles regarding aspects of employee benefits law and contributed to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Ms. Hasselman is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and of the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.