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December 12, 2017
Latham & Watkins LLP's George Mihlsten notched several big wins in 2017, from helping pave the way for a massive new residential and commercial development in Los Angeles County that had been bound up in the courts for years to assisting in improvements at Universal Studios theme park, securing him a place as one of Law360's 2017 Environmental MVPs.
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December 08, 2017
Law360's MVP award goes to attorneys who have distinguished themselves from their peers in litigation, deals and other complex matters. Find the MVPs at your firm here.
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December 08, 2017
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2017 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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December 15, 2016
Nossaman LLP’s Robert Thornton spent the past year successfully defending a $1.8 billion highway project in Phoenix that’s been in the works since 1983, helping the city of Bakersfield, California, defeat challenges to two major highway projects, and fending off opponents of the nation’s largest groundwater banking project, earning him a spot on Law360’s list of Environmental MVPs.
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December 14, 2016
Greenberg Traurig’s Paul M. Seby, who serves as North Dakota’s special assistant attorney general, cemented his spot among Law360’s 2016 Environmental MVPs by representing the state in litigation over some of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s most contentious regulations, including the Clean Power Plan and the Clean Water Rule.
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December 13, 2016
For her efforts as lead environment counsel advising lenders on a variety of multibillion-dollar projects around the world and her pro bono work on behalf of human trafficking victims, White & Case LLP’s Tallat Hussain has earned a spot on Law360’s 2016 list of Environmental MVPs.
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December 12, 2016
Latham & Watkins LLP’s Robert M. Howard landed among Law360’s 2016 Environmental MVPs after spending the past year working as lead national counsel for Monsanto Co. in eight cases where West Coast cities allege the agrochemical giant polluted various waterways with polychlorinated biphenyls and raise unprecedented public-nuisance issues.
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December 09, 2016
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP environmental practice head Annemargaret Connolly spent the past year helping steer $250 billion in mergers and acquisitions transactions through rigorous environmental reviews, including The Dow Chemical Co.'s $130 billion pending merger with DuPont, earning her a spot on Law360's list of environmental MVPs.
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November 22, 2016
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360’s 2016 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals. Here is a list of this year's Law360 MVPs.
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November 09, 2015
Sidley Austin LLP partner Roger Martella has been in the middle of the biggest environmental cases of the past few years, and last year was no exception, as he helped a group of utilities win some relief from an EPA air pollution rule, earning him a place on Law360's list of Environmental MVPs.
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November 06, 2015
Five exceptional attorneys stand out from the pack by being selected for the Law360 MVP distinction for five straight years.
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November 06, 2015
Five elite law firms have racked up more than 20 Law360 MVP wins each over the past five years, outshining their competitors with their accomplishments in complex litigation and transactions.
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November 06, 2015
This week, Law360 will begin profiling those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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December 11, 2014
A veteran of decades of oil and gas industry litigation, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Hugh Tanner was called within days of the April 2010 Macondo well explosion to lead a unit of longtime client Schlumberger out of the Deepwater Horizon litigation — a task he completed after four years of litigation and several congressional investigations, landing him among Law360's Environmental MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Lawrence Riff in the span of just two months secured defense verdicts for Monsanto Co. in the first of dozens of cases alleging its polychlorinated biphenyl products caused cancer and for ConocoPhillips Co. and Union Oil Co. of California in litigation over gasoline leaks that a developer claimed dirtied the site of a planned construction project, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Environmental MVPs.
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December 09, 2014
King & Spalding LLP partner Robert Meadows has represented Chevron Corp. in its ongoing battle against a Louisiana levee board’s multibillion-dollar suit over alleged damage to the state’s coastal ecosystem and successfully defended Shell Oil Co. in drinking water contamination litigation, among other cases, earning him a place on Law360’s list of Environmental MVPs.
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December 08, 2014
Ballard Spahr LLP partners Brendan Collins and Robert McKinstry scored two victories this spring for energy clients intervening to support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in challenges to its air-pollution regulations on power plants, earning them a spot on Law360’s list of Environmental MVPs.
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December 05, 2014
Fighting off a Clean Air Act suit for DTE Energy Co. and convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to limit the government's authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions are among the highlights that landed Hunton & Williams LLP’s Bill Brownell a spot among Law360’s 2014 Environmental MVPs.
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November 18, 2014
Beginning this week, Law360 will profile those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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December 09, 2013
Nossaman LLP’s Robert Thornton convinced the California Supreme Court this year to endorse an environmental impact assessment methodology that could give public infrastructure authorities nationwide a boost in proving their proposals faithfully considered conservation impacts, landing him aboard Law360’s select group of Environmental MVPs.
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December 06, 2013
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner Steven Solow successfully fended off a 26-count criminal indictment leveled at one of the nation’s largest water service providers, staring down the might of the federal government to prove at trial that no environmental violations had occurred and earning himself a spot among Law360's list of Environmental MVPs.
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December 05, 2013
Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Lawrence Riff convinced the Sixth Circuit not only to uphold a summary judgment ruling in favor of Chevron Corp. in a benzene and gasoline contamination lawsuit, but to affirm $250,000 in sanctions against the plaintiffs' attorneys in the case, earning him a spot among Law360's Environmental MVPs.
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November 08, 2013
Beginning this week, Law360 will profile the elite law firm partners whose exemplary work on critical litigation, mammoth deals and first-of-their-kind global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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December 20, 2012
Sidley Austin LLP partner Roger Martella has used his ability to see beyond the technical rulemaking process to help clients including Luminant Generation Co. and Portland Cement Association mount successful challenges to a pair of federal air emissions rules and a state carbon fuel standard, earning a place among Law360's Environmental MVPs.
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December 19, 2012
Jones Day's Kevin Holewinski has used his broad range of environmental expertise to help Xcel Energy Inc. topple multiple greenhouse gas emissions actions and lead Chrysler LLC's liquidating trust through resolving environmental claims stemming from a Wisconsin engine plant, landing him among Law360's Environmental MVPs.