Practice Focus
Jesse is a partner in Tressler’s San Francisco office. With more than 20 years of experience representing clients in complex matters ranging from interstate water disputes before the U.S. Supreme Court to multi-party remediation agreements to nationwide class actions, he has the experience, technical insight, and commitment to excellence required to handle the most difficult cases. Jesse’s practice focuses on all aspects of general litigation from pleading through trial. He represents clients in complex business disputes, toxic torts, personal injury defense, landlord-tenant and habitability disputes, real estate matters, water adjudications, and construction defect claims. He also assists clients with contractual transactions. Jesse is licensed to practice in California, Maine, and New Mexico.
Jesse draws on years of experience prior to law school, when he worked as a certified environmental professional, consultant, and business owner. Jesse is a Gaucho, receiving his undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he focused on biological treatment of wastewater. During law school at the University of New Mexico, he served as Lead Articles Editor for UNM’s respected Natural Resources Journal, published the widely cited article Hip Deep: A Survey of State Instream Flow Law from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, 43 N.R.J. 1151, and earned a Natural Resources Law Certificate. He has served as faculty and panelist at numerous conferences, symposia, and CLE courses, and has testified by invitation before state legislative committees on water issues.
Jesse was born and raised in northern New Mexico and has maintained a love of the outdoors since childhood. Though he has lived in London, New York, Los Angeles, and now the Bay Area, he’s still happiest in the mountains with a backpack, a rod, and a stream full of fish.