Admitted
1970, California; 1972, South Carolina; 1974, New York; 1991, Texas; U.S Supreme Court; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, Western and Northern Districts of New York and District of Colorado; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Law School
University of California at Los Angeles, J.D., 1969
Law School Graduation Year
1969
College
University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., 1966
Memberships
Houston (Member, Environmental Law Section), New York State (Chair, Environmental Law Section, 1990) and American (Section on Environment, Energy and Resources) Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas (Member, Environment and Natural Resources Law Section); Water Environment Federation.
Biographical
Adjunct Professor, University of Rochester, Environmental Law survey course, 1981-1987. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Texas Super Lawyers. Author: Federal Wetlands Jurisdiction After the SWANCC Decision, CLE International Texas Water Law, Houston, Texas (June 2001); Bioreactor Landfills: Long-Term Liability Issues, Proceedings of the GRI-14 Conference on Hot Topics In Geosynthetics - 1, Geosynthetic Institute (December 2000); Is Ignorance Bliss? Envtl. Protection 4 (1998), Environmental Issues and the Law, 89 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (Feb. 1992); EPA Policy Shift Preventing PRP Participation in Superfund Cleanups: Group Challenges Ban, Hazardous Waste and Toxic Torts (Feb. 1991); Environmental Russian Roulette, Water Environment & Technology (Aug. 1990); Law, Journal WPCF (Water Pollution Control Federation) (June 1990); Superfund's NPL: The Listing Process, 63 St. John's L. Rev. 4 (1989); Law, Journal WPCF, (June 1989); Law, Journal WPCF, (June 1988); How to Put a Superfund Settlement into Action, Hazardous Waste and Toxic Torts Law and Strategy, Vol. 3, No. 2 (July 1987); Legal Implications of Chemical Releases, Vol. 82 No. 11 Chemical Engineering Progress, (Nov. 1986); Waste Exchange Participation and the Potential for Liability - Be Wary of Possible Regulatory Traps, Northeast Industrial Waste Exchange, Issue No. 5 (Aug. 1982); Private Allocation of Environmental Risks - Contract Considerations, Expanding Liability in Environmental Law (1981); Financing Resource Recovery and Hazardous Waste Facilities in New York, Compendium of Articles on Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Committee on Solid and Hazardous Waste Management of the Environmental Law Section, New York State Bar Association (1981); Environmental Conservation Law, Article 37, Substances Hazardous to the Environment, Evaluation of Key Regulatory Programs Administered by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Committee on Environmental Law, New York State Bar Association (19