As managing partner of Best Best & Krieger, Eric L. Garner oversees one of California’s largest law firms with more than 200 attorneys in nine offices across the state and in Washington D.C. Garner is one of the leading experts on water in California. He has litigated cases and negotiated key agreements involving major water bodies across the state, including the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the Mojave River, the Santa Ana River, and the Santa Maria, Chino, Monterey and Antelope Valley groundwater basins. He also has worked with renewable energy firms in their efforts to obtain water supplies for solar plants in the California desert. University of Michigan, J.D. (1987) Earlham College, B.A.