Mary Rose Alexander
Latham & Watkins LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Client SatisfactionCo-chaired from the Washington DC office by Janice Schneider and James Barrett, the environment, land & resources team at Latham & Watkins LLP expertly handles a variety of environmental litigation cases, relating to climate change, air quality, toxic tort and natural resources. The team is home to Chicago’s Mary Rose Alexander , who represents clients in class actions, product liability, industrial accidents and toxic tort trials alongside trial lawyer Robin M. Hulshizer who, with environmental experience, is known by clients across the oil and gas, energy, manufacturing industries, particularly for her work on greenwashing and environmental justice-based claims. Over in New York, Kegan Brown specializes in natural resources claims, in addition to product liability case, particularly those involving PFAS, while DC’s Stacey VanBelleghem handles climate change and air quality matters.
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Key clients
- Chevron, U.S.A.
- The Clorox Company
- The Dow Chemical Company
- Marathon Oil Company
- DTE Energy Company
- Navistar, Inc.
- Marathon Oil Corporation
- Marathon Petroleum Corporation
- Beazer East, Inc.
- Holley Performance Products
- Terra-Gen Development Company
- Cogentrix Power
- Orsted
- Chromalloy
- Gavin Power LLC
- Bayer
- Paddock Enterprises
- National Coalition for Advanced Transportation (NCAT)
Work highlights
- Respresented Terra-Gen in a lawsuit challenging its approval to construct and operate a US$400m., 60-turbine wind energy project located on the Campo Indian Reservation in southern California.
- Representing The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) in a lawsuit brought by the City of Modesto in San Francisco County Superior Court relating to the alleged release of perchloroethylene (“PCE”)—a compound that Dow manufactured and was used by drycleaners—into the environment in Modesto.
- Respresenting Navistar in multiple class and individual actions filed in state and federal courts throughout the US and Canada.
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Janice Schneider, James Barrett