Environmental attorney vs legal counsel

Differences between environmental attorney and legal counsel duties and responsibilities

Environmental attorney example responsibilities.

• Participate in team preparing for ongoing large-scale environmental litigation.
• Focuse primarily on air compliance and permitting, environmental litigation, cost recovery liability, and remediation negotiation and compliance.
• Practice areas include CAA, CERCLA, CWA, EPCRA, RCRA, TSCA, and OSHA.
• Oversee the development of EHS compliance audit protocols for clients such as paint coating operations, salvage yards, and POTWs.
• Represent individual and institutional clients in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate acquisition, financing and leasing and foreclosure.
• Represent individual and institutional clients in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate acquisition, financing and leasing and foreclosure.

Legal counsel example responsibilities.

• Achieve statewide recognition as expert on Medicare and Medicaid.
• Manage high-risk employee terminations from initial decision through preparation for appeals hearings and any subsequent legal action.
• Assist in liaising with insurance authorities, responding to regulatory inquiries and managing relationship with region from legal and business perspective.
• Conduct anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) due diligence on a daily basis.
• Ensure compliance with federal securities laws, NYSE rules, and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Draft position statements for EEO and other regulatory claims.
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