Daria B Diaz

Practice Areas

Environmental Law and Litigation

Toxic Tort Litigation

Career

Daria Diaz has practiced environmental law for more than 30 years. She represents local, national, and international energy and industrial clients in a variety of substantive areas including environmental, natural resources, energy, oil and gas, and toxic torts.

Throughout her career, Daria has litigated a variety of environmental and energy law cases, including legacy oil field cases, and cases involving solid waste disposal and recycling, underground storage tanks, underground injection wells, coastal and wetlands issues, natural resource damages, and hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal.

Additionally, she handles environmental regulatory law, including permitting, compliance, and enforcement. Daria assists and counsels clients in permitting and enforcement actions before federal and state agencies, on release notification issues and environmental audits, and has participated in rulemaking efforts at both the federal and state level. She also represents clients in insurance, real estate, and transactional matters involving environmental issues.

Professional Memberships

Louisiana State Bar Association member and Past Chair of the Environmental Law Section.

Baton Rouge Bar Association member.

Daria served as adjunct faculty at Tulane Law School where she taught a class on Environmental Enforcement.

Publications

Recent Developments Environmental Law, Louisiana Bar Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1, June 2004.

Panelist LSU Environmental Round Table: Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Update, April 29, 2004.

Recent Developments Environmental Law, Louisiana Bar Journal, Vol. 51, No. 1, June 2003.

Environmental Justice, Chapter 30, Louisiana Environmental Law Handbook, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing (2000).

Trashing the Final Frontier: An Examination of Space Debris From a Legal Perspective, 6 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 369 (1993).

Pro Se Litigants in the Federal Courts, The Specter of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, (co-author) The Justice Professional, Vol. 6, Number 1 (Winter 1992).