WASHINGTON, Might 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Winston & Strawn LLP is happy to announce the addition of Jonathan D. Brightbill as associate within the agency’s Washington, D.C., workplace and member of the agency’s Litigation and White Collar, Regulatory Protection, and Investigations Practices.
Jonathan represents private and non-private corporations, company officers, and different people throughout white collar, regulatory protection, and authorities and inner investigation issues, in addition to advanced industrial disputes. His industrial litigation expertise encompasses environmental and regulatory litigation, enterprise disputes, false promoting, client safety, and in depth class motion and citizen go well with protection work, in addition to mental property corresponding to patent, trademark, and commerce secret disputes.
Jonathan served as Appearing Assistant Legal professional Normal, Atmosphere & Pure Sources Division (“ENRD”), at america Division of Justice. Because the nation’s lead environmental litigator and felony and civil regulation enforcement official, Jonathan led ENRD’s 425 legal professionals, dealing with 6,500 lively issues, with an annual price range of $150 million.
Jonathan argued lots of the authorities’s most vital appellate and district court docket issues throughout his service on the Division. This included the Navigable Waters Safety Rule and Clear Water Rule Repeal (tenth Cir., district courts), the Reasonably priced Clear Power Rule and Clear Energy Plan Repeal (D.C. Cir.), protection of EPA actions on pesticide tolerances underneath FIFRA and the FDCA (ninth Cir. en banc), and quite a few others. His in depth expertise on the intersection of litigation and coverage improvement is invaluable for advising corporations on navigating more and more advanced environmental regulation and federal enforcement actions.
“Winston’s fame as a trial and appellate agency is unparalleled, and I’m proud to affix this distinguished group of famend litigators and transactional legal professionals. I’m additionally becoming a member of the group at a pivotal second for environmental regulation,” stated Jonathan. “Past elevated dedication to local weather regulation and continued momentum in the direction of adopting actionable Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ideas, firms can count on elevated federal regulation and enforcement on air emissions, discharges to waters and land, and extra chemical and pesticide regulation, together with limitations on ‘ceaselessly chemical substances’ like PFAS.”
Jonathan directed the litigation and briefing of scores of circumstances in federal appellate and district courts across the nation, masking the entire main environmental and pure sources statutes, together with the Clear Air Act, the Clear Water Act, FIFRA (pesticides), FDCA (meals security), TSCA (toxics), CERCLA (land remediation), RCRA (waste), Endangered Species Act, Nationwide Environmental Coverage Act, Federal Land Coverage and Administration Act, and quite a few different land and useful resource administration statutes.
“We’re seeing a mixed effort from each the private and non-private sectors to boost the bar on environmental compliance and sustainability,” stated David Rogers, managing associate of Winston & Strawn’s Washington, D.C. workplace. “Jonathan’s background is good to deal with these advanced authorized issues and we sit up for his contributions.”
Jonathan gives steering on essentially the most vital environmental compliance points going through corporations right this moment, together with:
- Legal and civil enforcement of federal environmental regulation supported by elevated funding
- Regulation, litigation, and consultative work relating to local weather change and air emissions
- Environmental Safety Company regulation of pesticide use and the labeling and use of doubtless poisonous chemical substances by producers in quite a few sectors, together with associated citizen fits, mass torts, and sophistication motion litigation
- Elevated momentum from the federal authorities towards power produced by way of fossil fuels and the infrastructure that helps it, in addition to uncertainty relating to the manufacturing and sourcing of supplies to provide renewable power
- Elevated deal with the maritime sector, together with oversight of doubtless damaging discharges into navigable waters
- Regulatory and coverage modifications within the automotive sector, significantly relating to emissions and security laws
“Jonathan’s addition to the group in D.C. speaks on to the variety and complexity of points we’re managing for our current and increasing shopper base,” stated Winston & Strawn Chairman Tom Fitzgerald. “Jonathan was the principal federal litigator for environmental issues and served amongst essentially the most senior coverage and decision-makers on the Division of Justice— experiences that can be invaluable to corporations as they navigate modifications to compliance and enforcement in environmental, maritime, automotive, manufacturing, and different sectors.”
This enlargement of Winston’s D.C. workplace follows the current additions of litigation associate and CIFIUS specialist Tyler McGaughey, M&A associate Kathleen Blaszak, appellate associate Andrew Tauber, and tax companions James Mastracchio and Susan Seabrook.
Winston & Strawn LLP is a global regulation agency with 15 places of work positioned all through North America, Asia, and Europe. Extra details about the agency is accessible at www.winston.com.
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