Environmental And Natural Resources
Lawyers in ZIP Code 36104 - Montgomery
Nicholas Vocino, Mary Sellers, Christopher McKay, Henry Combest, Jacob Mauldin, Russell Abney, Christopher Boutwell, Rhon Jones, Anna Fry, William Gregory are among the top-rated environmental and natural resources attorneys in ZIP code 36104, Montgomery
Alabama.
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Common Environmental And Natural Resources Case Examples in zip 36104
Focuses on legal issues concerning the protection and use of natural resources like water, minerals, and forests. Case Example: National Audubon Society v. Superior Court, 33 Cal.3d 419 (1983), a case concerning water rights and environmental protection. Judgment: The court held that the public trust doctrine could be used to protect environmental interests.
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Location: 36104, Montgomery, Alabama Phone: Not Available Firm: Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis & Miles, PC
Rhon is arguably the top environmental attorney for plaintiffs in the entire country. Verdicts and settlements that he has participated in while at Beasley Allen Law Firm are estimated at $30 billion. He has handled environmental or toxic exposure cases in 14 different states to date. Since early 2010, Rhon has devoted his law practice to victims of the devastating BP Oil Spill.. Notable Cases. He currently serves on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC) for the BP Deepwater Horizon MDL, as well as class counsel in the economic and property class settlement against BP. He has served several roles on the PSC, including the negotiation of the method by which all business claims have been paid in the class settlement. That settlement has paid out more than $6 billion in claims to date and has been estimated to eventually pay out approximately $12 billion.. Rhon was also heavily involved in the $18.5 billion agreement to settle federal, state and local government claims against BP, which will result in more than $2 billion for Alabama. He represented Gov. Robert Bentley in the economic losses suffered by the state of Alabama from the oil spill, and has worked cooperatively with Attorney General Luther Strange, who represented the state of Alabama. This work resulted in Rhon being appointed a deputy attorney general for the state of Alabama in that case.. His environmental experience is much more than BP litigation, as historic and groundbreaking as that has been. Representative work includes:. Awards. Holding an AV Rating from Martindale Hubbell, Rhon has been named to the 2013-2014 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers, and consistently selected to Alabama Super Lawyers since 2008. He has regularly been selected for inclusion on both the Best Lawyers in America lists and received Beasley Allen's 2016 Litigator of the Year Award. In a recent Alabama listing of “Super Lawyers” for environmental practice, he was the only lawyer listed that exclusively represents plaintiffs.. Professional Associations. Rhon currently serves as president of the Montgomery County Bar Association. In 2007, Rhon received a Certificate of Recognition from the Alabama State Bar in tribute to his nomination for the 2007 Alabama State Bar Pro Bono Award. He remains active in the American Association for Justice, where he has co-chaired two different litigation groups.. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and has taught Torts at Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. At UA, he will teach “Advanced Torts: Complex Environmental Litigation – A Case Study of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” with Cooper Shattuck through April 2017 and taught the same course in Spring 2016.. Background. Obtaining his B.A. from Auburn University and his J.D. from the University of Alabama, Rhon served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Robert Varner and later began trial practice in Birmingham, Alabama, with the law firm of Starnes & Atchison. Rhon joined Beasley Allen in 1994 and now manages the firm’s environmental cases.. Community Involvement. He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Family Sunshine Center, whose mission is to prevent domestic abuse. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Janice Capilouto Center for the Deaf, which fills needs for the hearing impaired. He continues to actively support both as well as multiple ministry organizations in Montgomery and beyond.. He is a deacon at First Baptist Church of Montgomery, where he teaches Sunday school and facilitates a men’s bible study.
Location: 36104, Montgomery, Alabama Phone: Not Available Firm: Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis & Miles, PC
Since joining Beasley Allen Law Firm’s Toxic Torts Section in 2008, Chris has devoted his practice to providing legal advice to help protect the rights of those injured by exposure to toxic substances wrongfully placed in the environment by corporate giants and other polluters. Chris represents individuals, classes and groups in individual lawsuits, as well as in complex, multi-party litigation in state and federal courts and Multi-District Litigation (MDL) throughout the United States.. Notable Cases. Currently, Chris is the lead attorney in a class action pending in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida involving unfair and deceptive trade practices by the manufacturers and retailers of “flushable wipes.” In this case, the class includes Florida residents who purchased certain moist personal wipes that were falsely marketed to be safe for flushing.. In addition to his work on “flushable wipes” litigation, Chris represents individuals, property owners and business owners across the Gulf Coast to recover damages they suffered as a result of the 2010 BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Chris was heavily involved in the Deepwater Horizon MDL and class action litigation pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. As a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee’s Science Team, which is made up of top environmental attorneys from around the nation, Chris and his colleagues worked to amass the scientific evidence necessary to define the types and extent of harm the oil spill inflicted on the pristine Gulf Coast environment and the catastrophic, far-reaching economic toll of that damage.. Chris is also the lead attorney in our cases involving leaking underground storage tanks (USTs). In these cases, Chris represents people whose health or property is injured by toxic petroleum contaminants, including benzene (known to cause cancer in humans), toluene, ethyl benzene, xylene and MTBE, that leak from USTs, usually from a convenience store or other gasoline sales or storage facility. Chris’s UST clients include people who live or own property near leaking USTs, residents who obtain drinking water from wells near a leaking UST and nearby businesses affected by a UST leak. During the past few years, Chris has successfully recovered damages for numerous clients harmed by leaking USTs.. Awards and Ratings. Chris, a Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent Rated attorney, was named to the Super Lawyers' Alabama Rising Stars list in 2013, 2014 and 2015. In 2011, and again in 2015, he was selected as Lawyer of the Year for Beasley Allen’s Toxic Torts Section.. Publicity. He has spoken at several seminars and CLE events on various topics, including: class action and complex litigation, environmental litigation and the British Petroleum (BP) / Deepwater Horizon oil spill and settlement program.. Background. Prior to joining Beasley Allen, Chris served as assistant district attorney for Alabama’s Second Judicial Circuit, where he gained extensive trial experience in both jury and bench trials. He also served as attorney for the Butler County Department of Human Resources, where with that department he fought to protect abused and neglected children.. Chris graduated from the University of Alabama in 1992 with a B.S. in commerce and business administration. While at Alabama, he served as President of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After 10 years managing a family owned sales business, Chris attended Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, where he served as executive editor of the Jones Law Review, completed an externship as a judicial clerk at the Alabama Supreme Court, received recognition for Best Scholastic Achievement in 11 classes and received the Ronald A. Canty Memorial Scholarship - awarded by Beasley Allen. In 2005, Chris graduated magna cum laude, number one in his class and was awarded the James J. Carter Scholarship Award.
