Best Georgia Environmental Lawyers
Kimberley Hale regularly advises industrial clients, developers, and local governments on state and federal environmental compliance , permitting and enforcement matters. Utilizing her environmental engineering background, Kimberley has a particular expertise with regard to solid waste management and stormwater compliance. Kimberley serves as outside counsel for various national lenders and real estate investment firms, aiding in the risk assessment of potential environmental impacts on real ...
Jason S. Lichtstein serves as Office Managing Partner of Akerman LLP’s Atlanta office. A seasoned environmental attorney with more than 25 years of experience, Jason focuses his practice on the cleanup and redevelopment of Brownfields and other contaminated sites in the Southeast U.S. His practice includes a broad range of environmental transactional, environmental regulatory compliance, and state incentives matters and in emerging, cutting-edge environmental law and policy developments...
Clients rely on Clay Massey for complex litigation matters, particularly in the areas of land use and toxic torts. He has been trial counsel in numerous matters across various states and has tried several cases to verdict. Trusted by his peers, Clay is recognized in the legal community for his distinguished service, and is a chair of the American Bar Association’s Mass Tort/Toxic Tort Subcommittee. Clay is a trial attorney in Alston & Bird’s Environment, Land Use & Natural...
Helen J. Barnes is an Environmental Law attorney in Atlanta, Georgia with Kazmarek Mowrey Cloud Laseter LLP . She advises retail, industrial, corporate, and governmental clients on a wide range of environmental regulatory , transactional, policy , and litigation matters . Helen works with clients to address environmental risks while supporting operational and business goals. Her practice includes environmental compliance counseling, enforcement defense, permitting, environmental due diligence...
Darren practices in the areas of real estate, corporate, transactional and local government law, with extensive experience in environmental and real estate title matters. He represents buyers, sellers, and lenders in real estate transactions and related issues, including zoning and construction applications and permits. He also advises and represents individual and corporate clients and their interests before state and federal regulatory agencies, as well as in negotiations and disputes with ...
Wyatt Kendall focuses his practice on brownfield redevelopment and urban renewal projects and routinely advises local and national industrial, multi-family, mixed-use, and retail clients on the acquisition, development, disposition, management, and financing of properties with significant environmental issues and properties within urban and industrial areas across the country. He also represents corporate and lending clients on environmental issues in the context of a host of corporate transa...
Jennifer A. Simon represents clients in Environmental Law and Litigation - Environmenta l matters from the firm’s Atlanta, Georgia office at Kazmarek Mowrey Cloud Laseter LLP. Her practice includes environmental, energy, toxic tort, and product liability matters involving litigation, regulatory proceedings, compliance counseling, and risk management. Jennifer’s litigation work focuses on disputes involving wastewater, stormwater, contaminated groundwater, and storage gas migration...
Companies rely on Meaghan Boyd to develop their complex environmental and toxic tort litigation defense strategy. She also guides companies through the hoops of compliance with federal statutes such as CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, and RCRA and their state counterparts. Meaghan is co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group. She defends companies in complex environmental and toxic tort litigation in federal and state courts. She also routinely coun...
Charlie Denton represents an array of clients in environmental and toxic tort litigation, enforcement defense, regulatory compliance solutions and pollution insurance coverage disputes. He also serves as an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) neutral mediator and arbitrator. Persistent and highly collaborative, Charlie can take complicated issues and challenges and then identify a strategic path to achieve the client’s objectives. Charlie’s representation of industrial, municipal...
John C. Spinrad is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Environmental Law and Litigation - Environmental. John C. practices law in Atlanta, Georgia Best Lawyers has recognized John C. Spinrad since 2008. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which John C. Spinrad is held by other lawyers.
Peyton Nunez advises corporations of all sizes on a broad range of environmental transactional, regulatory compliance, and litigation matters . She has substantial experience with federal environmental laws, including CERCLA/Superfund, the Clean Water Act, RCRA, and the Clean Air Act, as well as their state counterparts. A significant part of her practice involves remediation of contaminated sites under various hazardous sites, brownfields, and voluntary remediation programs. Peyton works clo...
Max Zygmont is an environmental attorney with Kazmarek Mowrey Cloud Laseter LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. His practice focuses on Environmental Law and Litigation - Environmental, including permitting, compliance, litigation, and enforcement defense involving a broad range of environmental, health, and safety matters. Max advises clients on regulatory compliance, enforcement proceedings, and environmental litigation at both the state and federal levels. Max counsels manufacturers and other busines...
Scott Laseter´s practice has included litigation, regulatory and transactional aspects of environmental law . For the last dozen years, he has devoted a substantial portion of his practice to manufactured gas plant issues ranging from investigation and remediation oversight to cost recovery, insurance coverage and common law litigation. In recent years, he has also devoted a substantial portion of his practice to representing publicly traded real estate companies, parties to CMBS transa...
Stephen McCullers is an Associate in the firm’s Environmental Practice. Stephen has a diverse environmental practice, assisting clients with complying with complex environmental, health, and safety regulations. Stephen also has expertise with air and water permitting, environmental due diligence and liability, and environmental litigation. Before becoming an attorney, Stephen was a Natural Resources Specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He conducted environmental compliance ...
Gerald L. Pouncey, Jr. is the Chairman of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP. A Senior Partner in the firm, he also heads the Environmental and Infrastructure Practices. His primary focus is the acquisition, disposition and/or the redevelopment of properties with significant environmental impact (including state and federal superfund sites), mergers, investments and financing related to such properties and the development and implementation of green energy technologies and strategies. He lectu...
