Co-sponsored by ALI CLE
Why You Should Attend
This comprehensive, up-to-date program is a perennial must-attend conference for environmental attorneys and related professionals from across the country. Featuring a stellar faculty drawn from private practice, government, academia, and public interest spheres, this annual course offered new and returning attendees:
- advanced in-depth discussions of key issues in environmental law under the second Obama administration, including legislative initiatives, regulatory changes, and recent judicial decisions
- optional introductory lectures on the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and CERCLA and RCRA to ground those newer to the field, and as a refresher for more experienced attorneys
- an in-depth look at the most critical environmental issues associated with climate change and energy production, including a keynote address by Hilary Tompkins, Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior
What You Will Learn
This advanced program addressed each of the major areas of environmental law to give participants the big picture and highlighted key changes in the many intersecting aspects of environmental law that may affect your practice.
Led by an outstanding faculty of seasoned private practitioners, senior governmental officials, in-house counsel, law professors, and public interest advocates, this program brought you up-to-date on critical developments in:
- CERCLA and RCRA
- CAA and climate change
- Government enforcement initiatives and citizen suits
- Water quality, quantity, and wetlands
- NEPA and environmental justice
- Environmental issues concerning the production of energy
- ESA and public lands
- Ethical issues (one hour)
- International environmental law
Time is reserved throughout the annual program to network with colleagues from across the country and have your most pressing questions answered by the faculty.
Who Should Attend
This course benefits private and governmental attorneys who are engaged in, or planning to engage in, the practice of environmental law as well as environmental consultants, in-house attorneys, and public interest attorneys. While designed principally for the practitioner with considerable experience, the course also serves attorneys seeking to enter the field, in part through the series of optional introductory lectures.