From asbestos claims to zoning matters, our Environmental & Toxic Tort Practice Group understands that each day your operations are interrupted costs you money. Our approach is simple—to find a solution so you can get back to work. When you are faced with a difficult lawsuit, a troubling compliance issue, an enforcement order or subpoena, or you are seeking help with a facility expansion, acquisition, or sale, our approach is to solve your problem efficiently, effectively, and economically.

Our clients—whether Fortune 500 companies or small business owners—rely on us for solutions to existing problems, solutions for potential problems, and ways to avoid problems in the first place.

Jones Walker offers a full range of environmental counseling and litigation services, as well as sophisticated and experienced toxic tort defense. To serve your needs, Jones Walker has assembled a highly experienced team of attorneys with a broad spectrum of experience who can handle any issue involving the environment that your business may face. Members of the group have backgrounds in engineering, environmental management systems, architecture, urban and regional planning, and industrial management, and have served as federal prosecutors, agency regulators, military officers, in-house counsel, and law professors. Our diverse depth of talent and experience allows us to offer cost-effective solutions to clients facing complex and potentially costly environmental and toxic exposure matters.

For many years Jones Walker has successfully defended property owners, employers, refineries, waste disposal facilities, railroads, and other businesses and their employees against a wide variety of claims. We utilize the latest technology and highly qualified people and are ready to help you, whatever your need.

Environmental & Toxic Torts Practice Group Brochure

News

• Louisiana Now Requiring Extensive Disclosures By Those in Public Service
• Jones Walker Attorneys and Practices Ranked by “Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business”
• Bryan to Present at LSU Environmental Law Seminar
• Chernekoff Re-Appointed Membership Vice Chair of the ABA's Environmental Enforcement and Crimes Committee

Events

• "Environmental Due Diligence in Commercial Transactions"
• "Federal Jurisdication Over Wetlands–What Has Changed? And How Might You Be Affected?"
• "Environmental Issues: Louisiana, Post Katrina"
• "12th Annual Environmental Conference"

Publications

• Jones Walker Overview of 2008 Louisiana State Legislature Regular and Extraordinary Sessions
  July 3, 2008
• "FOIA at Last: New Law Intended to Force Federal Government to be More Responsive to Information Requests"
  Stanley A. Millan
  E*Lert, January 17, 2008
• "New Federal Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct"
  Stanley A. Millan
  E*Lert, January 3, 2008
• "Rapanos, Carabell and Where Do We Go From Here?"
  Boyd A. Bryan, Michael A. Chernekoff, Stanley A. Millan & Robert W. Scheffy, Jr.
  E*Lert, June 26, 2006
• "The Obligation to Restore Oil and Gas Properties: The View from Louisiana and Other States"
  Boyd Bryan, co-author
  American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources' Energy Committees Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 1, October 2005