Practice Description
Ms. Sanscrainte is a member of the firm's Environmental Land Use and Natural Resources Section and the Tribal Practice Group. She concentrates her practice on environmental, Federal Indian and municipal law, with a special emphasis on water law issues, hazardous waste clean-ups under CERCLA and MTCA, environmental insurance claims, and environmental claims in bankruptcy. Ms. Sanscrainte has commercial litigation experience as both plaintiffs' and defense counsel for various matters, including CERCLA/MTCA cost-recovery actions, breach of contract and Consumer Protection Act claims, and disputes involving general liability and title insurance coverage. She also has served as city criminal prosecutor for a western Washington municipality.

Ms. Sanscrainte is admitted to practice in Washington, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Washington Law and Politics magazine selected Ms. Sanscrainte as a "Rising Star" for 2008.

Professional Associations
& Publications
Ms. Sanscrainte is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and its Environmental, Land Use and Indian Law Sections, and the American Bar Association.

Co-Author, "The Role of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Fighting to Protect and Clean-up the Boundary Waters of the United States: A Case Study of The Upper Columbia River and Lake Roosevelt Environment," Penn State Environmental Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2004).

Speaker, "Tribal Water Quality Standards," 7th Annual Tribal Client Seminar, Short Cressman & Burgess, PLLC, Seattle, Washington, March 29, 2006

Speaker, "Protecting Tribal Reserved Water Rights," 6th Annual Tribal Client Seminar, Short Cressman & Burgess, PLLC, Seattle, Washington, April 21, 2005

Speaker, "Tribal Environmental Law and Policy," Northwest Environmental Training Center, Seattle, Washington, March 2005.

Speaker, "Native American Issues: The Upper Columbia River/Lake Roosevelt Environment," 44th Annual Conference - "Lewis and Clark, The Corps of Discovery," Air & Waste Management Association, Pacific Northwest International Section, Portland, Oregon, November 3-5, 2004

Speaker, "Water Law Update," 5th Annual Tribal Client Seminar, Short Cressman & Burgess, PLLC, Seattle, Washington, April 21, 2004

Speaker, "Failure of the Environmental Regulatory Process to Protect the Upper Columbia River Basin," 2003 Annual General Meeting, North Pacific International Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 4-5, 2003.

Speaker, "Freedom of Information Act Case Update, 4th Annual Tribal Client Seminar, Short Cressman & Burgess PLLC, Seattle, Washington, April 3, 2003

Education
J.D., Seattle University School of Law, cum laude, 2002
B.A., The George Washington University, 1992

Links to Published Articles
Colville Reservation Clean-Up (1.17 MB .pdf file)
by Richard A. Du Bey, Co-Chair, Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources
and Jennifer Sanscrainte