Rui Lopes

Leaders in Law endorses Rui Lopes as our exclusively recommended Environmental Law expert in South Africa. If you wish to get in touch with Rui, please use the contact information provided above.

Rui Lopes is the Managing Director of Lopes Attorneys Inc., a law firm based in the heart of Johannesburg, specialising in general dispute resolution, anti-bribery and corruption, healthcare and animal law. He has also assisted in advising clients in relation to Business Rescue proceedings within the South African company law landscape as well as with regulatory-related queries in an array of fields, including broadcasting, the motor industry and data privacy.

Rui has also assisted in conducting arbitration for multinational clients and conducting compliance investigations in relation to potential contraventions the United States’ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK’s Bribery Act, both in English and in Portuguese. Due to Rui’s multilingual capabilities, he has assisted various clients in relation to the acquisition of entities based in Portugal and Mozambique.
Prior to establishing Lopes Attorneys Inc. Rui was an attorney at Baker McKenzie’s Johannesburg office. Lopes Attorneys Inc. was established in order to provide cutting edge and cost effective legal services within South Africa and across the African market.

Rui has been recognised as of the leading young lawyers in Africa by Africa Legal Week, as well as a Legal Influencer for the Middle East and Africa region by Lexology on two separate occasions and his opinion pieces have been featured in leading media platforms across both South Africa and Africa.

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental Law
  • Dispute Resolution Law
  • Healthcare Law
  • Animal Law
  • Company Law

Firm Description:

Who we are

We start with our client’s end goal in mind, in order to provide sustainable and pragmatic solutions, which achieve their needs in a sound, commercially viable and long-term manner.

In doing so, we bring our slogan “Sustainability | Simplified” to all our mandates.

In partnership with the LegalNetlink Alliance, Lopes Attorneys Inc. has access to over 35 countries and over 143 cities globally.

With over 1500 lawyers part of the LegalNetlink Alliance, Lopes Attorneys Inc. has reshaped the new normal of doing business, and is able to execute mandates regardless of where or how intricate our client’s mandates may be.

Coupling our market-leading legal expertise with client-centred and focussed solutions, Lopes Attorneys Inc. prides itself on pushing the envelope and breaking boundaries in formulating and implementing innovative solutions.

In a volatile and unstable world, certainty becomes the most valuable commodity. It is for this reason that our team aims to bring certainty to the uncertain.

Core Values

  • Knowledge – By leveraging the latest legal developments and our market-leading expertise, we stay ahead of the curve and bring certainty to uncertain times.
  • Innovation – Through embracing the latest technologies, processes and strategies, we create a more efficient and effective practice, placing our clients’ needs first.
  • Sustainability – Through the adoption of sustainable practices and encouraging our clients to do the same, we contribute to reductions in environmental impacts and the creation of sustainable business models.
  • Diversity – We take every effort possible to create an inclusive and diverse workplace, which celebrates and values diversity. Lopes Attorneys Inc. understands the benefits of successful and productive working environments.
  • Adaptability – By being responsive to the changing landscape in terms of which legal services are provided, and in ensuring our operations are capable of rapidly adapting to these changing circumstances, we remain relevant and market-leading.

Some of our work…

  • Represented one of the largest multi-national commodities company’s in  multi-jurisdictional litigation involving the United Kingdom, Mozambique and South Africa. 
  • Represented one of the largest anima welfare organisations in interdicting the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment from implementing the trophy hunting quotas for rhino, leopard and elephant, and reviewing the quota.
  • Advised on a first-of-its-kind ESG compliance project in relation to a scrap metal facility, adopting processing techniques unique to this facility. 
  • Conducted tender irregularity investigations regarding a municipality within the Western Cape and worked alongside the Public Protector in relation to same. 
  • Advised on various legislative draftings of Regulations, Norms and Standards, White Papers and Policy Documents and Presentations to the Portfolio Committee under the provisions of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act. 
  •  Represented a client in relation to novel and ground-breaking litigation against a State-owned Pension Fund. 
  • Advised on a large-scale compliance project for cannabis production and the licensing with the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority. 
  • Represented a public interest organisation in relation to various work streams, including the devolution of commuter rails to municipalities and complaints to the Ethics Committee in Parliament. 
  •  Assisted various offices forming part of the Legal Netlink Alliance, including the Netherlands, Italy, and the United States.
  • Assisted in the licensing enabling the rehoming of ex-performing animals and ex-zoo animals to a true sanctuary in South Africa, ensuring that animal welfare is placed at the forefront of these precious species’ needs.
  • Advised the State Capture Commission with regards to various pending reviews.  
  • Conducted various due diligences, spanning employee due diligences, mining due diligences and corporate due diligences. 

 

Gary V. Weeks

Leaders in Law endorses Gary Weeks as our exclusively recommended Environmental Law expert in Arkansas, USA. If you wish to get in touch with Gary please use the contact information provided above.

Gary V. Weeks is a partner with the Law Group of Northwest Arkansas LLP. For more than 30 years, Gary’s legal practice has served individuals and corporations in the areas of agricultural, environmental, and business law, as well as complex civil litigation spanning a broad range of issues. Gary’s trial experience is extensive, with an AV Martindale-Hubbell rating for Civil Defense Litigation, Commercial and Environmental Law. He also serves as corporate counsel for a number of large, mid-size, and small Arkansas-based institutions, advising these clients on business issues, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, transactional matters, employment disputes, contracts, and settlement negotiations both pre- and post-trial.

Gary graduated from Lyon College in 1971 with a Bachelor’s degree in history. He is a member of the Lyon College Sports Hall of Fame. Gary did his graduate work in philosophy at the University of Arkansas, before graduating summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1987. His dedication to clients, as well as the results he achieves on their behalf, has been the foundation for Gary regularly being named as a “Mid-South Super Lawyer.” Gary is a practicing member of the state and federal bars of Arkansas and Missouri, as well as a member of the Washington County Bar Association and the Defense Counsel Bar of Arkansas. Additionally, he is admitted to practice law before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Gary has received an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.

Firm Description:

Located in Fayetteville, AR, The Law Group of Northwest Arkansas LLP is a law firm of dedicated professionals who serve clients in a myriad of practice areas. We dedicate ourselves to providing clients with comprehensive legal services. This means that while you and your family deal with legal issues, our firm will be with you at every stage.

We deliver committed representation to those who are in need of a steady hand while dealing with the potentially confusing area of law in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, or Virginia.

Our Fayetteville, AR attorneys can help you and your family with the following:

 

María Cristina de la Vega

Leaders in Law endorses María Cristina de la Vega as our exclusively recommended Environmental Law expert in Puerto Rico. If you wish to get in touch with Maria please use the contact information provided above.

Maria Cristina de la Vega is an associate in the Corporate Department. She joined O’Neill & Borges in 2018. María Cristina’s practice is focused on Environmental Law, Energy Law and Zoning and Land Use Law.  Prior  to joining the firm, she worked in the Litigation Department of another major law firm in Puerto Rico.

Education

  • University of Puerto Rico, B.A. in Sociology with an emphasis in Criminology, 2013
  • University of Puerto Rico School of Law, J.D., 2016
  • Vermont Law School, Master of Environmental Law & Policy, 2017

Bar Admissions

  • Puerto Rico (2017)

Firm Description:

O’Neill & Borges LLC is a full-service law firm established in 1962, and located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Our attorneys adhere to the highest standards of legal excellence and service.  O’Neill & Borges has a long-standing history of being involved in many of the most significant corporate transactions and adversarial proceedings in Puerto Rico.

For over 10 years, O’Neill & Borges has been recognized by the prestigious Chamber and Partner’s rankings and publications, based in London, U.K., as one of the leading firms in Puerto Rico. In 2011 and 2014, O’Neill & Borges received the highest distinction from this institution becoming the first law firm in Puerto Rico to be awarded the “Law Firm of the Year” award. Many of our attorneys are listed as “Leaders in Their Field” in the Chambers Latin America and Global guide.  Our team includes an experienced group of paralegals, legal assistants and other staff members dedicated to serving our clients.

We foster an integrated, collegial atmosphere, encouraging collaboration to ensure well-rounded and thorough legal advice and representation.

Our client base is extensive and representative of the major economic sectors of the Puerto Rican economy. Among our clients are leading business organizations, including Fortune 500 companies.

 

Ingvild Ombudstvedt

Leaders in Law endorses Ingvild Ombudstvedt as our exclusively recommended Environmental Law expert in Norway. If you wish to get in touch with Ingvild please use the contact information provided above.

Ingvild Ombudstvedt is a lawyer and economist, and the owner and founder of IOM Law. She has been working on legal issues relating to CO2 capture, utilisation and storage (CCS, CCU, and CCUS) and petroleum since 2012. Through her experience from Arntzen de Besche Law Firm (Oslo office), the Global CCS Institute (Brussels office) and IOM Law, she has gained extensive experience with these issues both nationally and internationally. She is also functioning as General Counsel for CO2 Capsol, a technology company focusing on capturing CO2 from industrial emissions and has been serving as both Chair person and member of the board on both a Norwegian and a Baltic organisation focusing on supporting stakeholders, projects and processes for full-scale deployment of CCS and CCUS as climate change mitigating technologies.

She has worked on projects under the Oil for Development Program, advising developing countries on petroleum law related issues and aiding in the development of regulatory framework. She has further gained experience developing and implementing regulatory framework for CCS, CCU, and CCUS, both nationally and internationally.

Ombudstvedt is appointed national expert by the Norwegian Mirror Committee as part of the ISO project TC265, which is established to negotiate and develop technical ISO standards for CCS and CO2-EOR (enhanced oil recovery, utilising CO2). Ombudstvedt is visiting researcher at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan. She is also currently pursuing an LLM in US environmental, natural resources and energy law, at Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon.

Education

  • 2003–2006 Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas (Norway) – Business Administration
  • 2007–2011 University of Oslo (Norway) – Master of Law
  • 2013 University of Oslo (Norway) – Petroleum Law
  • 2013 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim (Norway) Nordic CCS Summer School
  • 2015 University of Oslo (Norway) – International Environmental Law
  • 2020-(current) Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon (USA) – LLM Environmental, Natural Resources and Energy Law

Firm Description:

IOM Law is an Oslo-based boutique law firm, specialised in CCS, CCU, and CCUS. The firm was founded in early 2017 and has three employees. Collectively, the employees of IOM Law have a wide range of experience within high-level CCUS, energy, industry related projects, covering legal, regulatory, policy and commercial aspects. The team further has extensive experience within project management and business development.

Being involved in a broad specter of CCUS projects, the firm has established itself as an expert within the field of CCS and CCUS, advising both private and public stakeholders globally. The firm’s vision is to continue providing assistance in the development of a sustainable CCUS industry globally, as deployment and commercialisation of CCUS are crucial to one of the biggest challenges of our time; climate change.

Practice Areas

  • Carbon capture and storage
  • Public international law
  • International environmental law
  • Petroleum law
  • Public administrative law

 

Toomas Pikamäe

Partner Toomas Pikamäe manages the Law Office’s team specialising in public law and environmental law, as well as in economic offences. He is also widely experienced in matters related to data protection.

Toomas advises clients in a large number of issues concerning environmental law: from compliance issues up to environmental management systems, and has particular experience in waste handling issues.

Moreover, Toomas has accumulated extensive experience in the field of economic offences, e.g. offences concerning taxation matters, competition and other business related offences, and provides clients advice with a view to preventing such offences, as well as in proceedings connected with the same.

Toomas has extensive knowledge in the Estonian tax law, and he advises clients in a wide range of tax related issues, i.a. double taxation, corporate income tax, VAT, tax planning, transfer pricing, taxation of permanent establishments, and taxation of private individuals.

Toomas has successfully represented clients in several cases, which have been ultimately referred to the Supreme Court. Toomas’s competence in resolving disputes has been recognised by the international publication Chamber Europe. Furthermore, he is a well appreciated lecturer at seminars dealing with administrative law.

Eversheds :

Eversheds is one of the world’s largest corporate law firms. Committed locally, but connected globally, with offices based in the world’s major economic centres, with a proven track record of delivering consistently high quality legal services across jurisdictions.

The firm has developed organically over the past decade working for corporate organisations of all shapes and sizes in countries where they want to do business. Lawyers in all locations share the same values, ways of working and understanding of what clients really want. The past year has seen further international expansion for the firm. In the Middle East, the firm has become the first international player to establish offices in Iraq and is now one of the largest international players on the ground, with local lawyers based in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Doha, Dubai and Riyadh.

As a modern, progressive law firm, Eversheds sets itself apart through its people, culture and its attitude to change. Quality is a matter of personal pride to everyone and staff of the highest calibre are recruited and retained by the firm. Collaborative working and innovative thinking is encouraged and supported at all levels, meaning that clients enjoy an offering that is constantly evolving and improving to meet their changing needs. This has led to pioneering approaches to the law such as genuine project management and measurement of results that leads to cost predictability and control. In particular, the firm is noted for effectively delivering complex, multi-national legal services through one point of contact.

Relationships with clients are deep and genuine. An understanding of the sector and business culture which each client operates in, is a given. Collaboration is seen as a way of providing the most effective advice. Trust and accountability are the bedrock of all the firm’s client relationships.

Every year, Eversheds breaks new ground and is a firm that offers a clear alternative to those who want more from their lawyers.

Mary Beth Buckley

Mary Beth Buckley counsels national and international food and beverage, retail and health care companies, along with their advertising and promotion agencies, on a wide variety of advertising, marketing, social media, pricing practices and e-commerce issues. In addition to counselling, Mary Beth regularly represents clients in connection with federal and state governmental agency inquiries and investigations and also represents clients in self-regulatory proceedings.

Mary Beth’s practice also includes defending clients in complex commercial and class action litigation, including consumer fraud, warranty, products liability and mass tort litigation. She has played a key role in defending food and beverage, life sciences, retail, and other consumer products companies in high-profile litigation throughout the country.

Firm Overview:

Built on the strength of our commercial, intellectual property, and white-collar litigation practices, our Chicago office serves clients in courts throughout the United States. Our professionals include nationally prominent lawyers in those fields, as well as leading products, environmental, and mass tort trial lawyers and litigators who joined the firm in 2015. With trial experience in over half of the jurisdictions in the United States and a broad array of clients, our Chicago lawyers work closely with their counterparts in all of Steptoe’s offices.

Examples of recent matters include Steptoe successfully moving to dismiss all claims in a data breach class action filed against VTech and successfully resolving all claims against RR Donnelley in a complex patent infringement matter involving 10 patents related to web-to-print and variable-data printing products and services.

Publications including Chambers USA, Legal 500 US, The National Law Journal, and Law360 recognize the practices represented in the Chicago office for their work, and many of the lawyers are leaders in legal and professional organizations.

Norman W. Bernstein

Norman W. Bernstein has advised on a wide range of regulatory matters under U.S. environmental laws and argued numerous envionmental cases in federal appellate and district courts. He has assisted venture capital firms in establishing legal structures to minimize the risks of financing environmentally sensitive deals, advised on environmental disclosure issues and acquisition structuring, extracted a large pigment manufacturing plant from enforcement proceedings, made presentations on behalf of a client before OSHA and the National Toxicology Program regarding the alleged risks posed by silica and on the alleged carcinogenicity of rock wool and slag wool. He has filed comments with EPA on a wide range of rule makings and has negotiated successful settlements in Clean Air Act enforcement cases. He is also a Trustee at two Superfund sites; one is on EPA’s National Priority List. Mr. Bernstein was one of the lead speakers at the 4th Annual Carbon Trading Summit in New York in January 2010. For more details as to some of Mr. Bernstein’s experience and background, please see below.

Superfund and Environmental Litigation 

Mr. Bernstein has played a lead role in Superfund matters since the inception of the program in the early 1980s. In 1983, he led the Enviro-Chem site removal action settlement with EPA–the first large multiparty Superfund settlement with the Agency after the scandals that forced the Administrator from office. In 1984 and 1985, he led the first small generator cash-out anywhere in the country at the Chem-Dyne and Conservation Chemical sites. In 1986-88 he led the defense of the New York landfills litigation and achieved a favorable settlement for his client and several other defendants – the first major landfills settlement in the country. He argued United States v. Alcan Aluminum Corp., 964 F.2d 252 (3d Cir. 1992), the first case ever lost by the U.S. Department of Justice at the federal appellate level on the issue of Superfund joint and several liability. Later that year he also filed the main industry amicus brief in the Second Circuit on Superfund divisibility. During the 1990s, among other things, he successfully represented a coalition of companies in their cost recovery action against more than twenty major utilities that had received a free ride from EPA at a large West Virginia PCB site. Within eleven months after Mr. Bernstein filed suit against the utilities, all but one had settled and the remaining defendant settled on the eve of trial. Mr. Bernstein is currently a Trustee at the Enviro-Chem site Superfund site and at the Third Site, both in Zionsville, Indiana, and the Duane Marine site in Perth Amboy, N.J. The Enviro-Chem site is on EPA’s National Priority list.

With respect to toxic tort defense, Mr. Bernstein obtained summary judgment for a primary third-party defendant in a major lead inhalation case and obtained a dismissal of a second toxic tort (environmental exposure) case. On the appellate level, Mr. Bernstein has briefed and argued cases in the United States Courts of Appeal for the First Circuit (Boston), Second Circuit (New York), Third Circuit (Philadelphia), Seventh Circuit (Chicago), Eleventh Circuit (Atlanta), and the D.C. Circuit (Washington, D.C.).

Clean Air, Clean Water, Hazardous Waste and Fiber Cases 

Mr. Bernstein argued the electroplating pretreatment cases under the Clean Water Act in the Third Circuit, successfully defended a company from a threatened Clean Water Act citizens’ suit based on a claim asserted by a national environmental organization, and also settled on favorable terms other claims for significant discharges allegedly prohibited under the Clean Water Act. He filed extensive comments on EPA’s proposed Metal Parts and Machinery (MP&M) effluent guidelines challenging their applicability to companies already regulated under the Metal Finishing Guidelines. Additional comments were also filed with EPA on similar aspects of the pre-treatment program under the Clean Water Act.

With respect to the Clean Air Act, Mr. Bernstein has negotiated Consent Decrees on favorable terms related to emissions from coal fired boilers and major steel making facilities. He participated in negotiations and filed comments with EPA related to the proposed Compliance Assurance Monitoring (CAM) rule under the Clean Air Act. One of the nation’s largest independent steel manufacturers incorporated (in its comments to EPA) a critical analysis prepared by Mr. Bernstein of the epidemiological data used by EPA in its proposed particulate matter 2.5 micron standard (the PM2.5 rulemaking). Mr. Bernstein has also participated in a wide range of other rulemakings under RCRA, the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act.

Mr. Bernstein has briefed and made extensive administrative presentations to OSHA and the National Toxicology Program critically analyzing epidemiological and other test data related to the permissible exposure levels for silica and the alleged carcinogenicity of rock and slag wool and their dissimilarity to asbestos. He developed the administrative record challenging whether cutting wallboard posed a carcinogen risk and then used the record to successfully litigate against OSHA ending its proposal to mandate carcinogen warning labels on wallboard, joint compound and other silica containing construction products.

Counseling and Brownfield Development

Mr. Bernstein has provided counseling on a range of business activities involving potential environmental risks. Including with respect to Brownfield redevelopment. For example, he developed structural mechanisms that venture capital firms can use to control investors’ environmental risks – thereby facilitating investment in environmentally sensitive businesses. He has also provided counseling on the structuring of business acquisitions so as to control the environmental risks assumed. He has helped a major manufacturer establish the company’s internal management and compliance systems to minimize risks under governmental enforcement policies and to facilitate migration toward IS0 14000 compliance. More recently, Mr. Bernstein successfully extracted a large pigment manufacturing plant on Staten Island from NYDEC enforcement proceedings and obtained NYDEC approval for the site to be redeveloped under New York’s Voluntary Cleanup Plan.

Professional Affiliations and Education

Mr. Bernstein is a past Chairman of the Committee on Litigation Management and Economics of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section) and is the author of numerous articles and presentations on Superfund, including Superfund Reform Needs Drastic Simplification which is published in the January 1995 issue of The Environmental Law Reporter. He has taught torts at Wayne State University Law School and has been a guest lecturer on hazardous waste matters at Yale Law School and the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is a member of the bars of New York and Michigan and of the bars of the United States Courts of Appeal for the First Circuit (Boston), Second Circuit (New York), Third Circuit (Philadelphia), Seventh Circuit (Chicago), Eleventh Circuit (Atlanta), and the D.C. Circuit (Washington, D.C.). He is also a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Bernstein is a cum laude graduate of the Columbia University School of Law (1964) where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review. Between college and law school, he served as an Ensign and Lieutenant j.g. aboard the destroyer USS Ault (DD 698). 

Areas of Practice

  • Administrative Law
  • Contracts
  • Environmental Law
  • Government Agencies & Programs
  • Litigation & Appeals
  • Natural Resources Law
  • Toxic Torts

Bar Admissions 

  • New York, 1964
  • Michigan, 1983
  • U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 1997
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 1971
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1966
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1983
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1989
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1997

Education 

  • Columbia Law School, New York, New York

-J.D.

  • Columbia Law School, New York, New York

-LL.B.  cum laude – 196

-Law Review: Columbia Law Review, Member, Board of Editors, 1963 – 1964

  • Columbia College, New York, New York

-B.A. – 1959

-Major: History/Government

Published Works 

  • “The Enviro-Chem Settlement; Superfund Problem Solving”, Environmental Law Reporter, December, 1983
  • “To Clean Up Landfills, The Leader Should Be Municipalities Using Economic Incentives to Settle”, Environmental Law Reporter, January, 1989
  • “Superfund Reform Needs Drastic Simplification”, Environmental Law Reporter, January, 1995

Representative Cases 

  • In re the Revenue Properties Litigation Cases, 451 F.2d 310 (1st Circuit 1971)
  • Natural Resources Defense Council v. U.S.E.P.A., 683 F.2d 752 (3rd Circuit 1982)
  • National Association of Metal Finishers v. E.P.A., 719 F.2d 624 (3rd Circuit 1983)
  • General Motors Corp. v. U.S.E.P.A., 738 F.2d 97 (3rd Circuit 1984)
  • City of New York v. Exxon Corp., 633 F.Supp. 609 (S.D.N.Y. 1986)
  • State of N.J. Dept. of Environmental Protection v. Gloucester Environmental Management Services, Inc., 719 F.Supp. 325 (D.N.J. 1989)
  • U.S. v. Kramer, 757 F.Supp. 397 (D.N.J. 1991)
  • United States v. Alcan Aluminum Corp., et al 964 F.2d 252 (3rd Circuit 1992)
  • American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 965 F.2d 962 (11th Circuit 1992)
  • U.S. v. Alcan Aluminum Corp., 990 F.2d 711 (2nd Circuit 1993)
  • DMJ Associates, LLC v. Capasso, 228 F.Supp.2d 223 (E.D.N.Y. 2002)
  • Honeywell International, Inc. v. E.P.A., 372 F.3d 441 (D.C. Cir. 2004)
  • Bernstein v. Bankert, , 702 F. 3d 964 (7th Circuit 2012)
  • Bernstein v. Bankert, 733 F.3d 190 (7th Circuit 2013)

Classes/Seminars 

  • Adjunct Professor, Wayne State University Law School, Torts, 1987
  • Guest Lecturer on Hazardous Waste Site Matters, Yale Law School, 1985
  • Guest Lecturer on Hazardous Waste Site Matters, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1986
  • Faculty Member, The Practicing Law Institute’s 1988 Conference on Hazardous Waste Litigation

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • State Bar of Michigan, Member
  • New York State Bar Association, Member
  • American Bar Association, Member
  • Columbia Club of Michigan, President, 1980 – 1983
  • American Bar Association, Litigation Section, Past Chairman, Committee on Litigation Management and Economic

Past Employment Positions

  • New York Landfills Litigation Settlement Group, Coordinator, 1987 – 1988
  • Ford Motor Company, Associate Counsel, 1979 – 1988