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- Michael R. Cashman
- Thomas B. Caswell, III
- Eric E. Caugh
- Catherine M. Colinvaux
- Rolf E. Gilbertson
- Richard M. Hagstrom
- Wm. Gerald McElroy, Jr.
- Terrence C. McRea
- Christopher R. Paar
- Mitchell J. Rapp
- Patricia St. Peter
- Richard L. Voelbel
- Durwood J. Zaelke
- Lawrence Zelle
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Environmental
Zelle Hofmann attorneys have extensive experience in numerous areas of environmental law and environmental litigation, both domestically and internationally. We are staffed with some of the best environmental attorneys and litigators in the country, who focus on promoting clients’ businesses, minimizing costs, ensuring compliance, minimizing exposure and managing risk, and, where necessary, winning the case. This knowledge and experience includes environmental enforcement and compliance under U.S., international, and other legal systems' law. Zelle Hofmann attorneys have served on leadership committees and other executive committees in international environmental organizations and in public interest environmental law firms. Specific areas of environmental expertise include litigation matters and matters involving air quality, water quality, solid and hazardous wastes, toxic chemicals, acid rain and acid mine drainage claims, groundwater contamination, underground storage tanks, corrective action and remedial action plans, contribution, agency enforcement actions, global warming, and energy conservation, among numerous other areas. Zelle Hofmann attorneys also have extensive experience in the area of environmental insurance coverage disputes.
Zelle Hofmann's managing partner in Washington, DC, Durwood Zaelke, is an internationally recognized leader in environmental law. Mr. Zaelke is the Director of the International Environmental Law Program at the American University law school, and also has taught at Yale Law School, Duke Law School, and Johns Hopkins. He co-founded the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the University of California. In 1989, Mr. Zaelke founded the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a premier public interest international environmental firm, in Washington, DC and Geneva. Mr. Zaelke is co-author of the leading law school textbook entitled International Environmental Law & Policy, which has been used in more than 115 universities around the world.
Articles & Presentations
- Strengthening the Montreal Protocol: Insurance Against Abrupt Climate Change
- Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance & Sustainable Development
- Industry Genius: Inventions and People Protecting the Climate and Fragile Ozone Layer
News
- Durwood Zaelke Receives Awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Zaelke Plays Key Role in Broadening the Montreal Protocol to Address Global Warming
- Zaelke Moderated ABA Panel on Environment and Rule of Law
- Durwood Zaelke to Lead International Workshop on Emissions Trading Schemes