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| Varnum,
Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett LLP
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Since the early 1970s, Varnum environmental attorneys have assisted
regional, national and international clients with environmental planning
and problem-solving. The company focuses on client regulatory
compliance counseling, permitting, and problem avoidance by emphasizing
early planning, preventative action, and adaptation to ever-changing
regulations and technologies. When necessary, Varnum's
environmental litigation attorneys can and do vigorously represent
clients in administrative and judicial proceedings. To connect to Varnum's on-line environmental law department click
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Honigman
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Headquarters: 2290 First National Building 660 Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48226-3506 Phone: 313-465-7000 Fax: 313-465-8000 Contact: Kathy Hammers Email: kzh@honigman.com Website: http://www.honigman.com Other Offices: Lansing | Oakland County | Ann Arbor | Kalamazoo The Environmental Law Department of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP® consists of nine lawyers and one legal assistant. Five lawyers from the firm’s Litigation Department also assist the Environmental Law Department on environmental litigation matters. The Environmental Law Department was one of the first established in a Michigan law firm and is one of the largest in the state. A number of Department attorneys have served on councils of the State Bar of Michigan’s Real Property and Environmental Law Sections. Department attorneys have also served as chairperson of the State Bar of Michigan’s Environmental Law Section.Many of the Department’s lawyers have received undergraduate and graduate degrees in technical areas related to environmental regulation, such as economics, environmental sciences, and engineering. Several members of the Department have also served in federal and state agencies that administer and enforce environmental laws. One member of the Department served for 12 years as an enforcement attorney with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in Washington, D.C., and was involved in such landmark environmental enforcement cases as the “Love Canal” and “Times Beach” litigation. Another attorney in the Department was a legislative liaison with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The Department’s attorneys regularly lecture on environmental law issues before a wide variety of business and professional organizations, and have published numerous papers and articles on various facets of environmental law. The Department publishes a newsletter on environmental issues, Honigman's Environmental Law Focus, a quarterly publication on environmental law developments affecting Michigan. The Department also authored the Michigan Environmental Law Handbook, a guide to Michigan’s environmental laws. Department attorneys have also contributed to the Michigan Environmental Law Deskbook and the Michigan Environmental Statutes and Regulations book published by the State Bar of Michigan. To connect to Honigman's environmental law department click here. |
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Dykema
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Headquarters:
400 Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 48243 Phone: 313-568-6800 Fax: 313-568-6893 Contact: Grant P. Gilezan Email: ggilezan@dykema.com Website: http://www.dykema.com/environmental/ Other Offices: Chicago . Dallas . Los Angeles . Washington, D.C. Ann Arbor . Bloomfield Hills . Grand Rapids . Lansing . Lisle Dykema is a leading national law firm built upon its Midwestern heritage and values. Today, the firm serves a wide spectrum of national and multinational corporate clients and offers a wide variety of legal services. As a firm of choice for many companies, Dykema continues to expand its work for clients who increasingly are attracted to the firm’s sophisticated practices, skilled lawyers and commitment to value and quality service. Dykema's environmental practice consists of an interdisciplinary team of qualified attorneys, paralegals and investigators specializing in regulatory environmental issues, litigation, land use and real estate, insurance and governmental policy and practice. We work closely with those in our Corporate Finance and Real Estate practice groups in negotiating environmental provisions in transactional documents and allocating environmental risks and liability relating to transfer of interests in real property. Many of the Dykema attorneys have prior training and experience in a variety of technical backgrounds, such as public health, industrial hygiene and toxicology, chemistry and engineering. Dykema has a substantial state-level environmental practice counseling clients in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and the Eastern United States. Dykema environmental attorneys are strategically located in many of the company offices. For example, the Chicago office has an active practice before the Region V headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and provides legal services in the Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana areas. The Lansing, Michigan office is involved on a regular basis in environmental legislation and rulemaking activities, while lawyers in our Grand Rapids, Michigan office provide legal services on matters in Western Michigan and Indiana. To connect to Dykema's environmental law department click here. |
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Dickinson Wright
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Headquarters:
4500 Woodward Avenue Suite 4000 Detroit, Michigan 48226-3425 Phone: 313-223-3500 Fax: 313-223-3598 Contact: Sharon R. Newlon Email: SNewlon@dickinson-wright.com Website: (click here) Other Offices: Ann Arbor | Bloomfield Hills | Grand Rapids | Lansing | Nashville | Phoenix | Toronto | Washington, D.C. Dickinson Wright's wide-ranging environmental practice involves all aspects of federal and state environmental regulation. The company has a strong industrial emphasis and also represents developers, financial institutions, and others involved in the buying, selling, leasing, or financing of property and companies. Dickinson Wright serves clients in a wide range of environmental issues, from permit applications through appeals, from offers to closings, from policy research to environmental impact analysis, and from project management to Brownfield redevelopment. The environmental attorneys at Dickinson Wright have diverse backgrounds that include experience in environmental engineering, chemistry, urban planning, business and communications. This diversity allows them to understand not only the legal, but also the technical and business aspects of clients’ environmental projects. The collective knowledge and experience enables Dickinson Wright to serve clients’ transactional, development, compliance, crisis response, litigation and other environmental needs with a sensitivity to both public and government relations that is unique to the firm. The attorneys strive to develop a comprehensive environmental strategy tailored to the specific needs of clients. Dickinson Wright is aggressive in the representation of clients, yet flexible and creative in developing solutions to ensure that each client’s environmental project or litigation goal is achieved. Environmental attorneys are also key members of Dickinson Wright’s Energy & Sustainability Task Force. This task force helps clients identify and address the opportunities and challenges associated with the changing energy and sustainability markets. Dickinson Wright’s attorneys have been at the forefront of these issues, representing clients in international and domestic energy matters, including oil and gas production, electrical generation, wind turbines, biofuels production, coal gasification, electrical transmission and distribution, sustainability policy development and implementation, green construction, and emissions trading. |
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Barnes & Thornburg
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Michigan Headquarters:
171 Monroe Avenue N.W., Suite 1000
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503-2694 Phone: 616-742-3974 Fax: 616-742-3999 Contact: Charles M. Denton Email: charles.denton@BTLaw.com Website: (click here) Other Offices:
Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Environmental Law
Department represents clients of all sizes throughout the country in a
wide range of environmental matters. Current environmental practice is
grounded in the firm’s long history of handling environmental matters
for clients. The environmental practice was founded in the mid-1970s
when the field of environmental law first emerged, and several of the
department’s attorneys have practiced environmental law since that
time. One of the firm’s predecessors, Barnes Hickam Panzter & Boyd,
was one of the first law firms in the Midwest to recognize this new
field would significantly impact the daily activities of business,
industry, electric utilities, and local government.
The firm's work includes the following
activities: Compliance counseling and audits; Negotiating permits and
appealing unfavorable permit terms and conditions; Environmental
issues in business transactions (e.g., property transfers, mergers and
acquisitions, asset purchases); Business expansions and startups;
Hiring and working with environmental consultants to achieve client
objectives; Working on the development of statutes, regulations and
guidance documents at the state and federal level; Adjudicating
administrative matters before federal and state agencies; Litigating
in state and federal courts at both trial and appellate levels; Cost
recovery and contribution claims and litigation; Other environmental
litigation, including toxic torts; Environmental insurance claims and
litigation; Criminal and “white collar” environmental matters;
and OSHA counseling and enforcement actions
Lawyers in the department have academic degrees in geology, chemistry, chemical engineering, biology, and natural resources which allow them to better understand the scientific and technical issues inherent in environmental law. A number of attorneys also have practical work experiences in industry and with environmental regulatory agencies which help them understand and solve clients’ problems |
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WIMS
- Waste Information & Management Services, Inc.
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Headquarters: 767 Kornoelje Dr. NE Comstock Park, Michigan 49321 Phone: 231-408-2868 Email: info@ecobizport.com Website: http://www.ecobizport.com
Established in 1980, Waste
Information & Management Services, Inc. (WIMS) is an environmental
information and research firm that has been providing strategic
information to the environmental business community since 1980.
Over the years WIMS has provided a variety of environmental
information services to many individual subscribers including
attorneys, consultants, EH&S managers, TSD operators, local
government officials and the 600 members of the Michigan Bar
Association, Environmental Law Section.
Jeffrey L. Dauphin
is the founder of Waste Information & Management Services,
Inc. (WIMS) and its former affiliate organization Waste Systems
Institute of Michigan, Inc. (WSI) and has served as CEO of both
companies. Mr. Dauphin has a Civil Engineering degree from
Michigan Technological University and was previously employed with
Williams & Works consulting engineers and the West Michigan
Environmental Action Council (1969-1979). WIMS and WSI have
produced Michigan's leading environmental information newsletter -- Michigan
Waste Report -- since 1981. Other services and products have
included numerous environmental and waste management informational
materials, conferences and educational seminars. WIMS also
operates the EcoBizPort.com website and produces three daily
environmental information E-mail services: A comprehensive Michigan
(WIMS Daily) & National news (eNewsUSA) & information
services; and a Federal Register tracking service (REGTrak). WSI
was the 1987 recipient of the Governor's Environmental Excellence
Award for Hazardous Waste Management Information (click
here for Mr. Dauphin's resume).
For further information on WIMS
environmental information and news services (click
here).
Publishers of Michigan Waste Report, REGTrak, WIMS Daily & eNewsUSA |
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