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Our Environmental, Safety & Health Practice Group is one of the largest and most well-regarded practices in the world. With a dedicated, highly experienced team, that encompasses every aspect of complex environmental, safety and health litigation, rulemaking and policy development, compliance counseling, project siting and infrastructure development, property acquisition, site remediation and brownfields redevelopment, and water rights and water resource management.
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Our frESH Law Training program provides a comprehensive suite of UK-based training courses that focus on practice and procedure for health and safety law, environment, food and drink laws and product safety.
We bring you the benefit of our exceptional experience in a wide array of industries, including iron and steelmaking, mining, chemical manufacturing and distribution, petroleum refining and distribution, pulp and papermaking, transportation, energy, retail, municipal utilities, consumer products and environmental services.
Why Choose Us
As a firm with local connections and global influence, we provide distinct strengths:
Excellence in Complex Environmental Litigation
The history and nature of our clients’ requirements have led our firm to draw principally on lawyers with litigation and dispute resolution experience. As a result, we excel in complex environmental litigation, including challenges to new rules, defense of civil and criminal government and citizen suit enforcement actions, advancement and defense of cost recovery actions and defense of multiparty and toxic tort and common law actions.
Rulemaking, Policy Development and Complex Compliance Counseling
We have vast experience in rulemaking and policy development, compliance counseling, development of compliance management systems, auditing and internal investigations, and complex siting, permitting and infrastructure development. Our practice also has a transactional component that includes property acquisition, site remediation, brownfields redevelopment, water rights and water resource management.
Experience in Science, Industry and Public Policy
You will find among our team access to some of the industry’s most experienced professionals. Several of our lawyers have earned degrees in the sciences, or worked in government or industry. We often work with regulators such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), the US Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA), the Environment Agency and Health & Safety Executive in the UK, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and state and federal environmental authorities across all Australian jurisdictions.