Eric L. Garner

Partner

Riverside
3750 University Avenue, Suite 400
P.O. Box 1028

TEL: (951) 826-8269
FAX: (951) 686-3083
Eric.Garner@bbklaw.com

Eric Garner is the managing partner of Best, Best & Krieger. He practices environmental and water law.  He is an author of California Water II, a guide to California Water Law and Policy Issues.  In 2006 he received the California Lawyer of the Year award from California Lawyer Magazine for his work on the Santa Maria Groundwater Litigation.  Eric represents clients throughout California in both litigation and transactional matters related to water and he has represented clients in water matters involving the Mojave River, the Santa Ana River, the Chino Groundwater Basin, the Monterey Groundwater Basin, the Antelope Valley, and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.  He has also done water law work internationally and has worked in and written water laws for the governments of South Africa, Trinidad and Pakistan.  Eric is the vice-chair of the International Bar Association Water Resources Committee, and  has been an adjunct professor of water law at the University of Southern California Law School and has also taught water law at UCLA Extension and the University of California Riverside Extension.

Bar & Court Admissions

• California, 1987

Education

• JD, University of Michigan Law School
• BA, Earlham College, Richmond, IN