Brecken takes a thoughtful and practical approach to helping clients navigate environmental and regulatory matters.

Overview

Brecken’s practice focuses on environmental law and regulatory matters, including compliance, permitting, due diligence and interactions with federal and state regulators. She helps clients identify and manage environmental risks and navigate complex federal and state regulatory regimes. Her experience includes matters involving the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as well as counseling companies on climate reporting obligations and sustainability disclosures.

Prior to joining Stinson, Brecken was an environmental and natural resources associate at a global law firm in Washington, D.C., where she focused on environmental due diligence, enforcement matters and sustainability disclosures. She also served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Daniel D. Crabtree at the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.

Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Missouri

Education

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2023

  • Virginia Law Women, President
  • Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Managing Editor

University of Kansas, B.A., Political Science, Minor in Spanish, 2020

Clerkships

  • U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, judicial law clerk
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, judicial intern
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