Representative Experience

  • Represented clients regarding more than 100 oil spills, including in leading roles regarding the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon spills.
  • Represented Teck Metals Ltd. in developing and successfully negotiating transnational agreement with the EPA and DOJ in a cross-border contamination case involving discharges from a mining and smelting facility in Canada.
  • Representing a provider of specialty chemicals for the transportation, industrial, and consumer markets, on an NRD claim in connection with Patrick Bayou Superfund site in Deer Park, Texas.

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  • Represented a specialty chemicals manufacturer Joint Defense Group member in high-level discussions with EPA Region VI and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).
  • Acting for an original equipment manufacturer in a private company’s contribution action concerning sediments/lake bottom clean up in New York State. Site remediation costs projections and NRD claims exceed several hundred million.

Practice Area Highlights

  • Achieved U.S. News Best Lawyers2017 – Tier 1 national Environmental practice; nationally ranked for Land Use and Zoning law; and received Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, DC, metropolitan rankings.
  • Recognized by U.S. News Best Lawyers2017 – Tier 1 national and Houston metropolitan rankings for Litigation - Environmental and a national ranking in Natural Resources Law.
  • Pillsbury’s Environmental practice ranked by Chambers USA in the national, California and Washington, DC, categories (2016) and The Legal 500 U.S. recognized Pillsbury for excellence in environmental litigation (2016).

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  • Named U.S. News Best Lawyers2014 Environmental Law Firm of the Year; achieved Tier 1 national Environmental practice and Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, DC, metropolitan rankings.