Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

The environmental group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP offers clients nationwide expertise on investigations, enforcement, compliance, natural resources permitting, infrastructure projects, hazardous waste, contaminated sites, as well as clean up. Los Angeles-based James Dragna, who is a key point of contact for clients in the manufacturing, energy and aerospace spheres seeking assistance with environmental crises co-leads the practice, alongside Princeton’s John McGahren, who is well versed at handling Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act compliance and claims. The Los Angeles office fields Rick Rothman and David Brown, both of whom adeptly handle mandates relating to air quality, energy, climate change and hazardous substances. Other key names to note are Ella Foley Gannon, of the San Francisco office, who deals with natural resource permitting and Doug Hasting in Washington DC, whose practice encompasses a spread of environmental and administrative law, particularly response, compensation and liability mandates relating to the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.