PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Stanley Hatch is a founding member of Hatch & Parent and served as its Managing Partner from 1968 to 1991. He has more than 38 years experience in land use regulation, public agency and water law and has been "of counsel" to the firm since 2001.

Mr. Hatch's public agency clients include a major coastal water authority and numerous other governmental and private water purveyors.

He has significant experience in providing legal counsel and advice to senior management and governing boards of public agencies, having served as general and special counsel for a number of water authorities and special districts throughout his career and having served as special water counsel as well as City Attorney for a variety of government agencies and cities in California.

While serving as President of the State Water Contractors Association, Mr. Hatch was a lead urban negotiator in a process that resulted in the " Monterey Amendments" to the State Water Contract, which, in turn, resulted in a potential reduction in future State Water Project costs to urban water users in California of over $1.5 billion.

Mr. Hatch was one of the early leaders in implementing technological advancements in the legal profession in the 1980s and served on the national board of directors of LawNet, Inc., as its Executive Vice President.

After graduation from Harvard Law School, Mr. Hatch served two years in the U.S. Air Force as a Judge Advocate. In 1961, he joined the Santa Barbara Office of County Counsel, and also served as the County's Legislative Advocate for four years. During this period he successfully litigated the landmark case which removed all billboards from the highways in Santa Barbara County.

After opening his own law offices in 1965, he successfully won watershed of origin protection for his clients on the Santa Ynez River in several important cases before the State Water Resources Control Board. Mr. Hatch also served as General Counsel for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions under the late Robert M. Hutchins.

TRANSACTIONS/CASES

• Instrumental in bringing State Project Water into Santa Barbara County.
• Instrumental in creating a major water authority and implementing the $600M coastal aqueduct water project.
• Negotiated the "Monterey Amendments" to the State Water Contract.
• Planned and obtained permits for a major oil corporation's processing facilities.
• Acted as lead counsel in landmark groundwater rights litigation.
• Obtained permits to preserve and develop an historic polo club.
• Successfully negotiated the Upper Santa Ynez River Operating Agreement.

COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS INVOLVEMENT

Direct Relief International, member and Chair of the Board of Directors
Direct Relief Foundation, member and Chair of the Board of Trustees
Fielding Graduate Institute, former member and Chair of the Board of Directors
LAWNET, INC., former Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Directors
State Water Contractors Assn., former President Board of Directors, (Sacramento, CA)
Santa Barbara Regional Chamber of Commerce, former Member, Board of Directors
KCOY-TV, former Member, Board of Directors and Part Owner (Santa Maria, CA)
KKIQ-FM, former Member, Board of Directors and Part Owner (Livermore, CA)
Breast Cancer Research Center, Member, Advisory Board (cancer survivor)
Chance, Inc., founder and former Member of the Board of Directors (non-profit)

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
State Water Contract History Seminar, Department of Water Resources/

    State Water Contractors, Burbank, California (1998)
The Monterey Amendments, Managing Liquid Gold: An Update on Water Law

    and Policy, UCSB (1995, 1997, 1998)

EDUCATION
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1959
Utah State University, B.S., with honors, 1955

ADMISSIONS
State Bar of California
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
United States District Court, Northern and Eastern Districts of California