Greg Dillard

Practice Areas

A nationally recognized leader in catastrophic event response, as well as workplace safety and environmental law, Greg Dillard is known for practical, solution-oriented defense of companies in crisis. From the moment a client experiences a major event, Greg is there providing both strategic guidance to the company’s legal and executive team and on-site tactical support for the affected facility and its personnel.

Career

Greg leads BakerHostetler’s Catastrophic Accident Response team and its OSHA Workplace Safety team. These teams are strategically developed and located to provide rapid response capabilities to clients with facilities, assets and personnel across the country.

Greg focuses his national practice on safety, health and environmental (SHE) law, including process safety management (PSM) and risk management plans (RMP). He has tried and won some of the most significant OSHA cases in the past 15 years and has extensive litigation experience against EPA, TCEQ, BSE and other state and federal environmental and safety agencies.

Greg is also an author and frequent speaker on crisis response and safety and environmental compliance and enforcement issues. Through meetings with regulators and written comments, he has led multiple client advocacy groups to promote positive revisions to the PSM and RMP regulations under the EPA Clean Air Act, OSHA PSM Standard and Washington state PSM regulations.

Professional Memberships

Occupational Safety & Health Law Subcommittee, Labor & Employment Section, American Bar Association

Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section & Labor and Employment Law Section, Texas Bar Association

The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Houston Steering Committee

Publications

COVID-19 Prevention and Vaccination for America's Maritime Industry, The Maritime Executive, 2021

Legal Experts: Environmental & Safety Incidents Facing Increased Scrutiny, Texas Law Book, 2019

Evolution of Process Safety Enforcement, Institute of Environmental Law, 2019

Occupational Safety and Health Law Treatise, Fourth Edition, Chapter Editor, Bloomberg Law, 2018

Managing PE Risk: How Portfolio Companies Respond to Crises, Oil & Gas Financial Journal, 2017

When Are You Liable for a Subcontractor's Safety Negligence?, Bloomberg Law Reports, 2017

DOJ and DOL Expand and Promote Worker Endangerment Initiative, National Law Review, 2016

OSHA Engineering Guidelines Will Hit Energy Industry Hard, Law360, 2015

Personal

Recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. (2016-2019) and Chambers USA (2016-2018, 2021)

Houston Business Journal's "Who's Who in Energy" (2016)

J.D., University of Texas School of Law

B.S., Foreign Service, Georgetown University