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We advise our clients on complicated, cross-border project finance transactions, having worked with environmental lawyers from around the world on matters unique to project finance, such as compliance with the Equator Principles.
Cahill, an environmental lawyer from Yonkers who served in Gov, George Pataki's administration, is challenging Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is seeking a second four - year term.
Polly Higgins (above), an environmental lawyer from Scotland, certainly thinks so: She describes this approach as an entirely different paradigm than what's being discussed right now.

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A few of last year's category winners are back, leading in the early nominations, including tax specialist Robert Sceales from Sceales & Co, insolvency practitioner Lee Christensen, who has changed partners during the year and now goes under the banner Christensen Vaughan, and environmental planning lawyer Tony van Merwjk from Freehills.
For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.
Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.
While Graham and others questioned the PSC's ability to arbitrate environmental rather than utility issues, the commission's lawyers questioned whether the plaintiffs had legal standing since the organizations fighting the subsidy were mostly from the lower Hudson Valley, which is some four hours away from the nuclear plants.
According to a draft text from the chairman of the negotiators, Rudiger Wolfrum, an environment lawyer at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelburg, this will «compel operators to exercise care [of] the Antarctic environment by making them financially responsible for environmental damage they cause».
A number of suits challenge the nascent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thenvironmental groups from the other side.
Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.
Environmental lawyer Abby Williams ran away from her dark past a decade ago, and she's been enjoying a stable professional life in Chicago ever since.
This month's best new mysteries range from an environmental lawyer's latest investigation to Anne Hillerman's second Leaphorn and Chee novel and Walter Mosley's latest.
As we could not find any reviewer for his paper, we hope that it will attract responses from those who still believe that the compensation demanded by Tuvalu (with the help of Greenpeace and environmental lawyers) for damage caused by «global warming», is indeed unjustified.»
While general counsel at Riverkeeper I was asked by a very well - known environmental lawyer, one who had long - fought alongside us to protect the environment, to support the removal of a waste - transfer station from a new park.
This point, frequently made by lawyers from Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental legal group, combined with widely expressed public opposition to any more coal - fired power plants in Florida, led to the quiet withdrawal of four other coal plant proposals in the state.
Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association / BELA ($ 45,000): To support the implementation of court rulings requiring industry to clean up contamination from leather tanneries and shipbreaking operations.
This study closely follows a September Ocean Iron Fertilization symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) attended by leading scientists, international lawyers, policy makers, and concerned representatives from government, business, academia and environmental organizations.
The telecon offered insight from a provincial government regulator, a lawyer practicing in Alberta's environmental regulatory law, industry interests, and an independent environmental think tank.
He has almost single - handedly obtained about 40 landmark judgements and numerous orders from the Supreme Court against polluters, a record that may be unrivaled by any other environmental lawyer in the world.
If you are a number - crunching sort, there's a handy chart at the link that will allow you to compare the lawyer brain drain to everything from podiatrists to environmental science teachers.
Six lawyers from Foley Hoag's Paris office are among those listed in the 2018 edition of Best Lawyers in France: Thomas Bevilacqua, Arbitration and International Arbitration; Corentin Chevalier, Environmental Law; Carine Le Roy - Gleizes, Environmental Law; Bruno Leurent, International Arbitration; Catherine Muyl, Intellectual Property; and Frédéric Scanvic, Administrative and Publlawyers from Foley Hoag's Paris office are among those listed in the 2018 edition of Best Lawyers in France: Thomas Bevilacqua, Arbitration and International Arbitration; Corentin Chevalier, Environmental Law; Carine Le Roy - Gleizes, Environmental Law; Bruno Leurent, International Arbitration; Catherine Muyl, Intellectual Property; and Frédéric Scanvic, Administrative and PublLawyers in France: Thomas Bevilacqua, Arbitration and International Arbitration; Corentin Chevalier, Environmental Law; Carine Le Roy - Gleizes, Environmental Law; Bruno Leurent, International Arbitration; Catherine Muyl, Intellectual Property; and Frédéric Scanvic, Administrative and Public Law.
Our lawyers have defended class actions and individual cases alleging personal injury and property damage from environmental contamination or exposure to chemical products based on all types of legal theories, including negligence, fraud, failure to warn, negligent misrepresentation, trespass, private and public nuisance and damage claims such as «fear of cancer» and medical monitoring.
The community part of the site includes a daily news section, with press releases and other news compiled from various sources, and a «desk reference» of Internet tools useful to environmental lawyers.
Our lawyers are specialists in all aspects of resource management and environmental law and we advise clients on the full spectrum of Resource Management Act processes ranging from large infrastructure projects to national and local policy development.
The Law360 ranking comes on the heels of the EER group's recent recognition from U.S. News — Best Lawyers ®, which selected Perkins Coie as its 2014 - 2015 «Law Firm of the Year» in Environmental Law.
Finally, the Firm has a substantial practice involving environmental insurance coverage — a lawyer from our Environmental Group represented the plaintiff in New Jersey's leading Supreme Court environmental inenvironmental insurance coverage — a lawyer from our Environmental Group represented the plaintiff in New Jersey's leading Supreme Court environmental inEnvironmental Group represented the plaintiff in New Jersey's leading Supreme Court environmental inenvironmental insurance case.
Partner François Tremblay says his firm recruited lawyers from big firms to grow its labour, environmental, and aboriginal law practices.
From our own experience as environmental lawyers, we have seen local residents warn provincial government officials that logging would impact their drinking water, only to be told that the government can do nothing — that as long as logging company foresters certify that the logging will meet provincial standards, the logging can go ahead.
Three Ontario lawyers have reported receiving an email from the purported Hiroyuki Ito of Daiseki Co Ltd with regards to an environmental cleanup claim.
Our specialist lawyers defend clients against Environment Agency prosecutions and environmental prosecutions from other environmental regulators.
Odyssey is represented by a legal team that includes Blank Rome international and maritime litigation practice leader John Kimball, international environmental practice cochair K. Russell LaMotte from Washington, D.C.'s Beveridge & Diamond, and local counsel Allen von Spiegelfeld from 70 - lawyer breakaway boutique litigation firm Banker Lopez Gassler in Tampa.
We work regularly with specialist lawyers from our planning, real estate, construction and environmental teams.
He is the lawyer with the Dutch firm that successfully argued the Dutch government has a duty to protect its citizens from the harm of environmental damage, by doing its part to keep global temperatures from rising.
Additionally, our lawyers work with companies to structure business deals that advance our clients» interests while protecting them from environmental disputes and issues down the road.
This, in turn, suggests Kinder Morgan's lawyers have a clearer grasp of what B.C.'s constitutional chances are with its still - vague plan to enact environmental legislation to mitigate potential damage from the expanded pipeline than do most political commentators in Alberta, who have declared the idea unconstitutional without actually knowing what it is.
«(The case) raises some very critical environmental issues, and ones that we thought would benefit from broader public discussion, said Andrew Gage, moot administrator and staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, which organizenvironmental issues, and ones that we thought would benefit from broader public discussion, said Andrew Gage, moot administrator and staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, which organizEnvironmental Law, which organized the event.
Working with lawyers from a number of the firm's practice areas, we provide coordinated counsel on environmental, contracts, tax and other matters.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Kimberly was formally educated as an environmental engineer, with bachelors and masters degrees from Stanford University and worked for several years for McDonnell Douglas Corporation (now Boeing Co.) as one of the company's primary environmental compliance and Superfund remediation engineers.
At Caufield & James, our versatile and experienced lawyers provide comprehensive environmental counsel and litigation services for clients ranging from small businesses to major corporations.
Our lawyers have hands - on experience in environmental litigation ranging from pre-litigation legal and technical consultation through trials and appeals.
Recipient of a grant from the Legal Research Foundation in recognition of the paper Environmental Law Basics For Lawyers: Selected Topics (International Agreements, Private Prosecutions And Topical Cases) August 2002
Mr. Smith has been selected to the Connecticut Super Lawyers list in the practice area of Environmental Law from 2006 to 2012.
For example, if I am constructing a building and it has huge environmental law issues, I am probably better off getting my environmental law advice from the engineer rather than from a lawyer because the engineer pulls all the information together in order to help make the decision.
Our engagements include collaboration with lawyers from other disciplines including pension, environmental, health care, tax, finance, corporate, and labor and benefits matters.
From the beginning of a transaction through its completion, the skilled lawyers comprising our business transactions, real estate, environmental, land use, and tax practices work together to the extent necessary in each matter to deliver practical and cost effective interdisciplinary advice to achieve each client's specific goals.
He is ranked in the top tier of environmental lawyers in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, has received the highest ratings (AV ® Preeminent ™) from Martindale - Hubbell ™ for his entire career, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America © in the area of Environmental Law for more tenvironmental lawyers in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, has received the highest ratings (AV ® Preeminent ™) from Martindale - Hubbell ™ for his entire career, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America © in the area of Environmental Law for more than a lawyers in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, has received the highest ratings (AV ® Preeminent ™) from Martindale - Hubbell ™ for his entire career, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America © in the area of Environmental Law for more than a Lawyers for Business, has received the highest ratings (AV ® Preeminent ™) from Martindale - Hubbell ™ for his entire career, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America © in the area of Environmental Law for more than a Lawyers in America © in the area of Environmental Law for more tEnvironmental Law for more than a decade.
Lastman withdrew from politics in 2003 and was replaced in the mayor's office by Toronto lawyer David Miller, who undertook a number of environmental initiatives, and expanded transit and social housing programs.
Foley Hoag was recognized in 2013 as the sole top environmental law practice in Massachusetts in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, and has been designated as a top practice every year from 2003 - 2012.
Our lawyers assist companies in obtaining project approvals from all levels of the US government, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state utility commissions, and federal and state environmental agencies.
DuPont Canada's in - house team has six people — four lawyers and two paralegals — handling a range of legal matters from commercial issues and contracts to employment, IP, environmental law, as well as anti-trust issues.
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