Our attorneys stand at the forefront of emerging global environmental, climate change, and sustainability issues while representing clients in national and regional compliance, permitting, development, and contamination matters and in criminal and civil litigation.
Our practice is diverse and impressive in scope. We are renowned for our Superfund activity on the administrative and litigation levels, acting for parties in some of the largest remedial and natural resources damages matters in the country. We are active in air quality regulation, water concerns, and environmental issues related to utilities and alternative energy generation. Our practice is also known for its work in developments and redevelopments, permitting, and enforcement. And we have received acclaim in the climate change area.
Environmental Stewardship
Clients wanting to improve their day-to-day practices and enhance their reputation in environmental stewardship rely on us to provide publicly responsive environmental advice and compliance programs. In development projects, we navigate clients through laws pertaining to threatened or endangered species and sensitive lands, such as wetlands.
Reinvention To Meet Clients' Challenges
We reinvented our historically strong Superfund practice to focus on the more difficult issues now confronting clients subject to the federal cleanup and natural resource damage restoration program. As a result, our attorneys are advising clients in connection with some of the biggest contaminated sediment cleanups in the United States.
Our agility as a practice is not confined to Superfund. We are on the frontlines of U.S. and global environmental, climate change, and sustainability issues and developments and continually adapt our practice offerings to meet our clients' legal needs.
Strength in Traditional Environmental Areas
We continue our commitment to traditional areas of environmental law, the decades-long backbone of our practice. For developers, we counsel on permitting; regulatory compliance; water-related issues such as storm water control and water and sewerage supply; brownfields program rules; and risk management to close complex transactions successfully. For industrial clients, we advise on air quality issues, including as new source review permitting and compliance.
Our litigation strength is well known. We represent clients in administrative, civil, and criminal proceedings, and have achieved recent successes in defending air quality permits and challenges to environmental impact assessments. We also excel at recognizing when cases are more appropriately negotiated and settled and recently achieved several settlements of toxic tort claims.
Seeing the Future and Staying Ahead
Our attorneys invest time in reviewing and analyzing industry developments, studies, and research; potential legislation and regulatory developments; and relevant science. Currently, our attorneys are monitoring nanotechnology regulations issues and the impact of dwindling fresh water resources in newly threatened regions.
We also stay connected to the environmental community through leadership positions on bar committees, commissions, and trade and charitable organizations. We speak at major environmental conferences and hold teaching positions at law schools.