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Environmental
Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Environmental Law Department represents clients of all sizes throughout the country in a wide range of environmental matters. Our Environmental Department’s attorneys are located in the firm’s Chicago, Indiana, Michigan and Washington D.C. offices, and provide legal services to clients in the Midwest and throughout the country. Our 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
- OSHA counseling and enforcement actions
Our current environmental practice is grounded in the firm’s long history of handling environmental matters for clients. Our environmental practice was founded in the mid-1970s when the field of environmental law first emerged, and several of our 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. Lawyers in our 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 our attorneys also have practical work experiences in industry and with environmental regulatory agencies which help them understand and solve our clients’ problems.
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