Environment
USA Guide 2024 : Louisiana
Band 1
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Provided by Jones Walker LLP
Jones Walker LLP offers a full range of environmental counseling and litigation services, as well as sophisticated and experienced toxic tort defense. To serve your needs, Jones Walker has assembled a highly experienced team of attorneys with a broad spectrum of experience who can handle any issue involving the environment that your business may face. Members of the group have backgrounds in engineering, environmental management systems, architecture, urban and regional planning, and industrial management, and have served as federal prosecutors, agency regulators, military officers, in-house counsel, and law professors. Our diverse depth of talent and experience allows us to help clients find cost-effective solutions when facing complex and potentially costly environmental and toxic exposure matters.
For many years, we have successfully defended property owners, employers, refineries, waste disposal facilities, railroads, and other businesses and their employees against a wide variety of claims.
Chambers Review
Jones Walker LLP remains a go-to choice for oil and gas entities facing environmental law disputes and regulatory issues, including clean air, clean water, Superfund and state-specific environmental programs. Also offers transactional expertise, advising clients on environmental issues resulting from the sale, purchase and development of commercial and industrial facilities. Its broad client base spans property owners, medical centers and energy and waste disposal facilities. Increasingly noted for representation of industrial facilities.
Work Highlights
- Jones Walker LLP represented INEOS Oxide in the defense of LDEQ Notice of Potential Penalty issued in January 2019, alleging violations of Title V operating permits applicable to the company's Plaquemine, Louisiana facility.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The lawyers at Jones Walker are first-class and terrific in every respect."
"Jones Walker is a leading firm in Louisiana."
"The lawyers at Jones Walker are first-class and terrific in every respect."
"Jones Walker is a leading firm in Louisiana."
Notable Practitioners
Robert Holden expertly handles compliance and enforcement issues for a range of clients including manufacturing and waste plants.
"Robert Holden is a top-notch attorney."
Boyd Bryan handles permitting and enforcement matters, including those arising from corporate transactions. He also advises on a range of compliance issues.
Alex Prochaska provides a range of regulatory advice in relation to energy and chemical plants as well as storage and solid waste facilities. He has additional experience assisting with a range of complex environmental litigation.
Meghan Smith works clients on environmental regulation and litigation involving a range of issues. She advises on environmental liability, site contamination and remediation issues, among others.
"Megan's a good lawyer."
Stanley Millan has a robust environmental practice and handles both transactional and regulatory work. He regularly advises clients on wetlands violations, waste issues and CAA and CWA regulation.
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