King & Spalding's Environmental Practice Group addresses technical and legal environmental issues in a practical and cost-effective manner.
Our Lawyers
- Combine substantive expertise, technical knowledge and litigation experience on environmental issues.
- Serve as lead counsel on many trials, tapping skills and substantive experience in both litigation and environmental law.
- Function at the intersection of law and science. We work with clients and experts to present in plain English technical information on environmental effects, health effects, chemistry or engineering.
- Deal with the complexities of federal, state and local laws, and rapidly changing federal, state and local regulations. King & Spalding’s environmental lawyers in Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Houston regularly practice before state and federal agencies throughout the United States.
- Apply prior experience in government and industry. Clients rely on our lawyers' ability to use these perspectives in audits, internal investigations, the development of environmental management systems, regulatory strategy, litigation and legislative efforts.
- Our lawyers in Washington, D.C. have special experience in chemical risk assessment and work with associations and industries on risk assessment issues before federal and state agencies and in toxic tort litigation.
Our Clients
We represent corporations, associations and local and state governments and agencies. King & Spalding clients include companies and trade associations involved in:
- Energy
- Energy-intensive manufacturing
- Tire and rubber manufacturing
- Mining, metal smelting, and metal-based product manufacturing
- Forest products
- Hazardous waste management
- Residential and commercial real estate development
- Food and beverages
- Consumer products
- Banking
We represent state and local governments and agencies in issues involving:
- Air
- Water
- Endangered species
- Solid and hazardous waste
- Disputes with federal agencies and other parties
Practice Group
King & Spalding’s Environmental Practice Group consists of lawyers in Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Houston.
Environmental Litigation
Our group includes:
- Lawyers with engineering, chemistry and land resources backgrounds
- Lawyers with regulatory and industry experience
- A former United States Attorney General
- A former state Senior Assistant Attorney General
- A former senior trial lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice (winner of the Attorney General's Award for prosecution of complex litigation)
- Former regulators at the Georgia Environmental Protection Division
- A former senior environmental engineer for a Fortune 500 chemical manufacturer
- Two former Chairs of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia
- A former chair of the ABA Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Litigation
- A founding member of the ABA's Environmental Lawyer
- A former President of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation
- A former member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Bar Association
- A former Vice-Chair of the ABA Committee on Toxic and Environmental Torts
- Member of the Executive Council of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
- Member of the Board of Editors of the Chemical Waste Litigation Reporter
- A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
Many firms transfer environmental litigation to trial lawyers who do not have detailed knowledge of environmental law. Many environmental lawyers have never served as lead counsel in a trial. Our clients benefit from lawyers who have served as lead counsel in trials, in court hearings on injunctions and in administrative hearings involving water, hazardous waste, solid waste and Superfund issues. Our lawyers have handled examination of scientific and medical experts in many disciplines relating to environmental law.
