Devoted to California’s Most Valuable Resource.
Where integrity meets guardianship.
For PKW Law, water is more than a resource. It’s the central issue of our careers. We’ve devoted our time, energy, education, and reputations to understanding this resource and its effects. Keeping up with this rapidly changing area of the law requires stamina and determination, and we’ve built our practice around attorneys who have the skills and desire to successfully navigate it for our clients.
Our team
William C. Paris, III
William Paris co-founded PKW Law in 1997 and has spent decades representing public and private clients. His wealth of experience includes water rights adjudications, changes to water rights, water transfers, public trust issues, and water use reporting.
bparis@pariskincaid.com
Valerie C. Kincaid
Valerie Kincaid’s practice focuses on water law, including water rights, transfers, and quality issues. Her experience extends to environmental law issues related to the use of water resources, including state and federal endangered species law, habitat conservation planning, public trust issues, and state and federal environmental regulations.
vkincaid@pariskincaid.com
Timothy Wasiewski
Timothy Wasiewski assists public and private clients with complex water and environmental law issues, including water right priority, water quality control, stream adjudications, public trust doctrine, CEQA, the Endangered Species Act, and water transfers. He represents clients before the State Water Resources Control Board, and in state and federal trial and appellate courts.
tw@pariskincaid.com
Jonathan R. Marz
Jonathan Marz counsels and represents public agency and private clients in matters involving water rights and related issues. His experience includes California water rights laws, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act, among others. He has handled complex business disputes including contract breaches, theft of trade secrets, and unlawful competition.
jmarz@pariskincaid.com