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Practice Emphasis
Permitting. Litigation. Regulations. The maze of environmental requirements businesses must navigate is daunting. The attorneys who make up Gardere’s Environmental Practice know the pathways through this maze, and have the wisdom of decades of experience helping corporate clients—large and small—meet their regulatory obligations and business goals.
In addition to their years in private practice, many of our Environmental attorneys have high-level E.P.A. experience, as well as backgrounds in engineering, consulting and academia. Combining their legal knowledge and human wisdom, they have represented clients, across a broad cross-section of industries, in federal and state courts nationwide, and before local, state and federal regulatory bodies. Our attorneys routinely work in new and developing areas of environmental regulation covering air, water and land, and have extensive experience in complex negotiations dealing with hazardous substance disposal liability and remedial actions.
Climate Change Task Force
Climate change may seem like an insurmountable challenge facing our world, but to our clients, it presents immediate and concrete business problems that require an understanding of profound issues, the wisdom to discern their potential impact and the experience to maneuver significant challenges. Our climate change task force bridges every legal discipline and provides clients with sound advice to deal with this vexing issue.
Gardere does much more than pay lip service to Climate Change and sustainability issues. We realize the importance of taking tangible steps to reduce energy use in our own offices. Gardere is the first Texas-based law firm to join the ABA-EPA Law Office Climate Challenge by making a commitment to reduce our energy usage by 10% in each of our offices.
As part of its Climate Challenge participation, Gardere has been working with EarthPeople, LLC, a Dallas-based sustainability consulting firm. EarthPeople assisted Gardere with the preparation of its 2007 Sustainability Report, the firm's first voluntary reporting of its environmental challenges and contributions. EarthPeople helped the firm evaluate its materials and waste stream, procurement policy and operations to identify opportunities for energy efficiency and resource conservation.
Environmental Compliance and Natural Resources Regulation
Our goal is to ensure our clients’ compliance with all relevant environmental requirements while also maintaining their profitability. Our attorneys regularly assist clients in day-to-day licensing and permitting matters, locally, statewide, nationally and internationally. In addition, we have significant experience defending clients in all manner of regulatory matters.
Environmental Litigation
The Team's expertise encompasses the entire range of environmental, toxic tort, and oil and gas litigation. We also litigate actions involving alleged personal injuries or deaths from exposure to toxic substances, and claims arising out of indemnity and other contractual provisions allocating environmental responsibility. We are committed to resolving such matters in ways that are both commercially and environmentally sustainable.
White Collar Criminal Defense
Gardere’s environmental attorneys apply their technical expertise and in-depth experience as former prosecutors, EPA regulators or officials, and defense attorneys to complex situations and cases involving antitrust, banking, customs, environmental, health care, public corruption, securities, technology, and trade secrets laws and regulations. We understand that our clients’ lives and companies are at stake in such matters, and we don’t take this obligation lightly. |
News
April 16, 2010
Fran Phillips Named to Atmos Energy Customer Advisory Board - More >
March 01, 2010
Climate Change Litigation Hits a Roadblock in Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals - More >
February 16, 2010
Leading Texas Climate Change Lawyer Praises State's EPA Challenge - More >
December 17, 2009
Gardere Receives Top 20 Honors from Burton Awards - More >
December 01, 2009
Texas Environmental Attorney Headed to Denmark for United Nations Climate Change Conference Press Release - More > September 16, 2009
Gardere Attorneys Garner Super Lawyers Honors - More >
August 04, 2009
The Best Lawyers in America' Honors 40 Gardere Attorneys - More >
February 20, 2009
Stormy Weather Ahead? The Impact of Climate Change Regulation and Litigation on the Texas Energy Sector - More >
September 29, 2008
Big Settlement for Millennium Petrochemicals - More >
July 16, 2008
It's Not Easy Being Green May 2008 - More > June 06, 2008
Houston Attorneys Share Views on Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gas - Houston Business Journal - More >
May 30, 2008
Lawyers Mobilize Practice Area as Climate Change Heats Up - More >
October 25, 2007
Lawyers mobilize practice area as climate change issues heat up - More >
September 03, 2004
Food Fights In The Courtroom: I Ate Fast Food And All I Got Was Fat - Houston Business Journal - More >
June 06, 2003
Texas Appeals Court Affirms No-Evidence Summary Judgment In Benzene Anemia Death Case - Mealey's Emerging Toxic Torts - More > |
Press Releases
August 09, 2010
'Best Lawyers in America' Honors 41 Gardere Attorneys - More >
June 14, 2010
Gardere Recognized By Chambers USA - More >
May 27, 2010
Gardere's Gray Appointed Editor-In-Chief of The Houston Lawyer - More >
May 26, 2010
Gardere Partner Richard Faulk To Co-Chair Atlanta Conference on Gulf Oil Spill Litigation - More >
March 01, 2010
Climate Change Litigation Hits a Roadblock in Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals - More > February 16, 2010
Leading Texas Climate Change Lawyer Praises State's EPA Challenge - More >
December 01, 2009
Texas Environmental Attorney Headed to Denmark for United Nations Climate Change Conference Press Release - More >
September 16, 2009
Gardere Attorneys Garner Super Lawyers Honors - More >
August 04, 2009
The Best Lawyers in America' Honors 40 Gardere Attorneys - More >
June 17, 2009
D Magazine Names Eight Gardere Attorneys to “Best Business Lawyers in Dallas” List - More > June 12, 2009
Chambers USA Recognizes 23 Partners and 10 Practice Areas in 2009 - More >
November 07, 2007
2007 New Associates - More >
July 29, 2007
Phillips Receives Ebby Rose of Distinction - More >
June 24, 2007
Gardere Partners Recognized by Chambers USA - 2007 - More >
June 08, 2006
Gardere Partners Listed Among Top Business Lawyers-Firm Along with 19 Partners Honored by Chambers USA - More > June 01, 2006
Ten Named "Houston's Best" by H Texas Magazine Houston Top Lawyers 06FINAL - More >
August 30, 2005
Twenty-two Gardere Attorneys Named 2006 "Best Lawyers in America" - More >
November 08, 2004
Twelve Gardere Attorneys Listed As "Best Lawyers In America" - More >
September 28, 2004
Super Lawyers 2004 Includes 51 Gardere Attorneys - More >
February 05, 2004
Gardere's Faulk To Address Scientific Evidence Issues For National Academy Of Sciences - More > October 24, 2003
Super Lawyers 2003 Honors 49 Gardere Attorneys - More >
May 06, 2003
Faulk Receives Burton Award for Legal Achievement - More >
April 08, 2002
White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Launched With Hagemann - More >
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June 07, 2010
Environmental Action Report - June 2010 - More >
March 24, 2010
Study of Texas Environmental and Energy Legislative Issues Announced - Legislative Alert - More >
January 12, 2010
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - January 2010 - More >
December 10, 2009
Updates from Copenhagen - Climate Change Alert - More >
November 24, 2009
New Stormwater Requirements for Construction Industry - Environmental Alert - More > November 19, 2009
Barnett Shale Issues Have EPA's and TCEQ's Attention - Environmental Alert - More >
October 16, 2009
Kivalina Climate Change Case Dismissed in San Francisco - Climate Change Alert - More >
October 14, 2009
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - October 2009 - More >
July 01, 2009
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - July 2009 - More >
May 06, 2009
U.S. Supreme Court Clears Up Two CERCLA Issues - Environmental Alert - More > February 03, 2009
EPA Proposes New Storm Water Regulations for Construction Industry - Environmental Alert - More >
February 03, 2009
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - February 2009 - More >
January 14, 2009
Commercial Vessel Discharges - Environmental Alert - More >
December 18, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - December 2008 - More >
November 30, 2008
Environmental Action Report - November 2008 - More > November 06, 2008
TCEQ Changes Cleanup Rules for Storage Tank Sites - Environmental Alert - More >
November 05, 2008
SBA Requires Due Diligence - Environmental Alert - More >
October 20, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - October 2008 - More >
September 29, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - September 2008 - More >
August 01, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - July 2008 - More > June 30, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - June 2008 - More >
May 26, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - May 2008 - More >
April 24, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - April 2008 - More >
March 25, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - March 2008 - More >
February 27, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - February 2008 - More > January 23, 2008
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - January 2008 - More >
November 16, 2007
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - November 2007 - More >
October 18, 2007
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - October 2007 - More >
October 04, 2007
Climate Change Task Force Formed - Climate Change Alert - More >
September 22, 2007
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - September 2007 - More > August 22, 2007
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - August 2007 - More >
July 17, 2007
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics)- July 2007 - More >
June 11, 2007
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - June 2007 - More >
May 07, 2007
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - May 2007 - More >
June 28, 2006
Supreme Court Interprets "Discharge" Under Clean Water Act - Construction Alert - More > June 27, 2006
Supreme Court Dries Up Wetlands Definition - Environmental Alert - More >
November 05, 2005
Environmental Action Report (Multiple Topics) - November 2005 - More >
July 01, 2005
Texas Supreme Court Clarifies State Superfund Law: Allows Contribution Claims For Voluntary Clean Up - Environmental Report - More >
September 30, 2004
EPA Proposes Changes To Due Diligence Standards - Environmental Alert - More >
February 29, 2004
"As Is" Clauses in Real Estate Contracts May Not Protect Sellers Under the Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act - Environmental Alert - More > May 31, 2003
Obtaining Final Stabilization in Regards to TCEQ Storm Water Permits - Environmental Alert - More >
April 30, 2003
Keeping Score: Texas Environmental Compliance History - Environmental Alert - More >
February 28, 2003
Storm Warning: New Permits Required At Construction Sites In Texas - Construction Alert - More >
February 28, 2003
Court Of Appeals Rejects Novel Theory Of 'Passive Disposal' For Criminal Prosecution - Environmental Alert - More >
December 08, 2002
Gardere Defeats U.S. Justice Dept. and Cooper Industries - Environmental Litigation Alert - More > February 28, 2002
Gardere's Junk Science Motions Raise Commotion - Environmental Alert - More >
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Publications
June 10, 2010
Crude Defenses? Liability Limits for Offshore Drilling Accidents and Oil Spills - BNA - Toxics Law Reporter - More >
May 28, 2010
Oil Spill Suits Promise Something for Everyone; Liability Cap May Be Illusory - BNA - Class Action Litigation Report - More >
May 26, 2010
Stretching the Boom? Limiting Liability for Offshore Disasters - Westlaw Journal Article - More >
May 10, 2010
Ned Comer, et al v. Murphy Oil USA, et al Brief - More >
April 29, 2010
Shifting Landscape Article - D CEO - More > April 29, 2010
Uncommon Law: Ruminations on Public Nuisance Article - BNA - More >
April 16, 2010
Vigilance Required Despite Stalled Climate Change Legislation - TGCF Report - More >
April 14, 2010
Hannibal Eclipsed? Envelopment by Public Nuisance - Westlaw Journal - More >
March 10, 2010
The Theater of Climate Change - Westlaw Journal - More >
March 05, 2010
Full 5th Circuit To Hear Katrina Public Nuisance Case - Law 360 - More > February 08, 2010
Attorney Covers Climate in Copenhagen Article - Houston Business Journal - More >
February 03, 2010
The Winter of Our Discontent - Andrews Litigation Reporter, Winter 2010 - More >
December 23, 2009
The Queer Case of the Quarrelsome Convocation: Allies, Adversaries, Indifference And Exaggeration In Copenhagen Article - More >
December 23, 2009
Copenhagen's Disappointing Denouement: Anatomy of a Failed Convocation Article - More >
December 23, 2009
The 'Climategate' Controversy: A Tree Falls in the Forest, But Is Copenhagen Listening? - More > December 23, 2009
Bringing Diplomacy to a Boil: Options for Agreements in Copenhagen - More >
December 12, 2009
The first 'Official' Draft of the Copenhagen Agreement Blanks, Brackets, Chewing Gum and Baling Wire - More >
December 11, 2009
Negotiating With Someone Else's Money Shifting The Responsibility For Climate Change Funding - More >
December 10, 2009
The Insolence of Office? Exposing The Politics of Perception in Copenhagen - More >
December 09, 2009
The Crucible of Common Sense: Real and Illusory Expectations In Copenhagen - More > December 08, 2009
Clearing the Air in Copenhagen - More >
October 21, 2009
Premature Burial? The Resuscitation of Public Nuisance Litigation - Toxics Law Reporter - BNA, Inc. - More >
October 09, 2009
Court Dismisses Global Warming Case Against Big Oil article - Houston Business Journal - More >
May 26, 2009
Alternative Energy & Environmental Law Roundtable: Has the Light Bulb Come on Yet? Think Green. - Texas Lawyer - More >
May 11, 2009
Environmental Forecast Under the Obama Administration - Texas General Counsel Forum - Texas Lawyer - More > March 30, 2009
CERCLA's Equitable Allocation of Liability - Law360 - More >
February 05, 2009
Stale Claims and the CERCLA Discovery Rule: The Resurrection of Wrongful Death Actions? - Toxics Law Reporter - BNA, Inc. - More >
November 28, 2008
Municipal Settings Designations: An Important New Tool for Redeveloping Contaminated Property - Houston Lawyer - More >
November 28, 2008
A Glorious Mess: Congress' Creation if its Inaction forces EPA to Regulate Climate Change under Existing Laws - Houston Lawyer - More >
August 20, 2008
Defending Against Climate Change Litigation Threshold Issues - Environmental - Andrews Litigation Reporter - More > August 07, 2008
A Sub Prime Tort? Public Nuisance An Unfit Tool for Lending Regulation - Washington Legal Foundation - More >
July 28, 2008
Negligence in the Air - Should "Alternative Liability" Theories Apply in Lead Paint Litigation? - Pace Environmental Law Review - More >
July 25, 2008
Are Unilateral Climate Change Policies Creating the "Perfect Storm"? - World Energy Magazine - More >
June 06, 2008
Houston Attorneys Share Views on Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gas - Houston Business Journal - More >
May 30, 2008
Stormy Weather Ahead: The Legal Environment of Global Climate Change - Climate Change Task Force Report - More > May 21, 2008
Applying the Endangered Species Act to Global Climate Change - Daily Environment Report - BNA - More >
May 14, 2008
Judges in the Hot Seat: How Does the Legal System Deal with Climate Change - energy Online Spring 2008 - More >
May 05, 2008
Texas Supreme Court Expands Workers' Compensation Coverage - The Houston Lawyer - More >
April 10, 2008
Foraging Through the Jungle of Expert Discovery and Testimony - Natural Resources & Environment - American Bar Association - More >
February 20, 2008
New Hampshire's MTBE Lawsuit (PDF: 7MB) - More > February 05, 2008
Amicus Brief - State of Rhode Island vs. Lead Industries Assoc. - More >
November 13, 2007
Climate Change 'Due Diligence' Requires Look at Energy Usage - Houston Business Journal - More >
October 12, 2007
"Some" is No Longer Enough in Texas Toxic Tort Cases - Asbestos - Andrews Litigation Reporter - More >
October 12, 2007
Texas High Court Heightens Scientific Evidence Standards - Washington Legal Foundation - More >
September 18, 2007
Amicus Brief - The American Chemistry Council - More > July 30, 2007
Fran Phillips Awarded the Ebby Halliday Rose of Distinction - More >
July 13, 2007
Effective Challenges to Unreliable Expert Opinions - Texas General Counsel Forum Report - Texas Lawyer - More >
July 10, 2007
Environmental Liabilities: New Risks and Solutions Article - More >
June 06, 2007
Where Do We Go From Here? Reconsidering Global Warming after Massachusetts v. EPA - Environmental - Andrews Litigation Reporter - More >
April 11, 2007
Negligence in the Air? Should 'Alternative Liability' Theories Apply in Lead Paint Litigation? - Product & Safety Liability Report - BNA, Inc. - More > March 26, 2007
Amicus Brief - City of St. Louis v. Benjamin Moore - More >
November 29, 2006
Getting The Lead Out? The Misuse Of Public Nuisance Litigation By Public Authorities And Private Counsel - Toxics Law Reporter - BNA, Inc. - More >
May 31, 2006
Budgeting (Is Not) For Dummies - GC News - Texas General Counsel Forum - More >
April 06, 2006
America's Premiere Lawyers - Interview with Rick Faulk - Sky Radio - More >
March 19, 2006
Avoiding The Rush to Judgment in Asbestos Premises Liability Litigation: The Problem of "Maturity" - Expert Evidence Report - More > March 19, 2006
Cost Recovery Under CERCLA Section 107 after Cooper v. Aviall' - Daily Environment Report - BNA, Inc. - More >
February 05, 2006
Avoiding And Exploiting 'Analytical Gaps' In Expert Testimony - expert Evidence Report - BNA, Inc. - More >
January 22, 2006
A Defense Win In the Heart Of "Enron Country" - National Law Journal - More >
June 14, 2005
CERCLA At 25: There and Back Again - Tulane Environmental Law Journal - More >
September 16, 2004
Reinventing CERCLA: Will The Supreme Court Overturn 20 Years Of Settled Contribution Practice In Aviall Services Inc. v. Cooper Industries? - Mealey's Emerging Toxic Torts - More > September 03, 2004
Food Fights In The Courtroom: I Ate Fast Food And All I Got Was Fat - Houston Business Journal - More >
December 08, 2003
A Decade of Daubert - The Continuing Trend Toward Stricter Scrutiny Of Expert Testimony In State Courts - Risk Policy Report - SETAC Annual Meeting - More >
September 30, 2003
Dispelling The Myths Of Asbestos Litigation - South Texas Law Review - More >
July 31, 2003
Expanding Scope Of Liability Under The Alien Tort Claims Act - Texas Transnational Law Quarterly - More >
June 06, 2003
Texas Appeals Court Affirms No-Evidence Summary Judgment In Benzene Anemia Death Case - Mealey's Emerging Toxic Torts - More > May 15, 2003
Business Owners Should Prepare for New Wave of Asbestos Liability - Houston Business Journal - More >
May 15, 2003
Storm Warning: New Permits Required At Texas Construction Sites - Houston Business Journal - More >
April 21, 2003
Supreme Court: Defendants Have No Federal Immunity In Suit By Foreign Workers - Toxic Chemicals Litigation Reporter - More >
October 10, 2002
Asbestos Litigation In State Court - Class Action Litigation Report - BNA, Inc. - More >
October 10, 2002
Asbestos Litigation in State Court: Why The System Is Broken And Some Suggestions For Repair - Class Action Litigation Reporter - More > May 14, 1996
Knowing Just Enough To Be Dangerous: A Primer for Complex Toxic Tort and Environmental Cases - Toxics Law Reporter - BNA, Inc. - More >
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Speeches and Presentations
August 04, 2010
Environmental Superconference Cocktail Reception - More >
February 20, 2009
Stormy Weather Ahead? The Impact of Climate Change Regulation and Litigation on the Texas Energy Sector - More >
June 13, 2008
Municipal Settings Designations - More >
June 13, 2008
Expert Discovery and Testimony: Avoiding Disaster - More >
July 10, 2007
Environmental Liabilities - New Risks and Solutions Powerpoint - More > July 10, 2007
Environmental Liabilities: New Risks and Solutions Article - More >
December 02, 2004
Business Law Brief "Appellate Issues" - More >
March 23, 2003
Business Law Brief "Storm Water Runoff Regulations" - More >
February 14, 2003
Can a Groundwater Conservation District Regulate or Impose Water Standards? - State Bar of Texas CLE - More >
December 15, 2002
Environmental Cleanup - Business Law Brief Interview with Rick Faulk - More > September 22, 2002
Business Law Brief "Water Contamination" - More >
June 30, 2002
Multi-Jurisdictional Practice: Challenging Unreliable Evidence - More >
May 05, 2002
Business Law Brief "Polluted Property" - More >
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