WASHINGTON , Might 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Winston & Strawn LLP is happy to announce the addition of Jonathan D. Brightbill as accomplice 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 firms, company officers, and different people throughout white collar, regulatory protection, and authorities and inside investigation issues, in addition to advanced business disputes. His business litigation expertise encompasses environmental and regulatory litigation, enterprise disputes, false promoting, client safety, and intensive class motion and citizen swimsuit protection work, in addition to mental property resembling patent, trademark, and commerce secret disputes.
Jonathan served as Appearing Assistant Lawyer Normal, Setting & Pure Sources Division (“ENRD”), at the US Division of Justice. Because the nation’s lead environmental litigator and felony and civil regulation enforcement official, Jonathan led ENRD’s 425 attorneys, dealing with 6,500 energetic issues, with an annual funds of $150 million .
Jonathan argued lots of the authorities’s most important 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 Inexpensive Clear Vitality Rule and Clear Energy Plan Repeal (D.C. Cir.), protection of EPA actions on pesticide tolerances beneath FIFRA and the FDCA (ninth Cir. en banc), and quite a few others. His intensive expertise on the intersection of litigation and coverage improvement is invaluable for advising firms on navigating more and more advanced environmental regulation and federal enforcement actions.
“Winston’s repute as a trial and appellate agency is unparalleled, and I’m proud to affix this distinguished group of famend litigators and transactional attorneys. I’m additionally becoming a member of the crew at a pivotal second for environmental regulation,” stated Jonathan. “Past elevated dedication to local weather regulation and continued momentum in direction of adopting actionable Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ideas, companies 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 ‘endlessly chemical substances’ like PFAS.”
Jonathan directed the litigation and briefing of scores of circumstances in federal appellate and district courts across the nation, masking all the 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 accomplice of Winston & Strawn’s Washington, D.C. workplace. “Jonathan’s background is right to handle these advanced authorized issues and we sit up for his contributions.”
Jonathan offers steerage on essentially the most vital environmental compliance points going through firms immediately, together with:
- Legal and civil enforcement of federal environmental regulation supported by elevated funding
- Regulation, litigation, and consultative work concerning 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 in opposition to vitality produced through fossil fuels and the infrastructure that helps it, in addition to uncertainty concerning the manufacturing and sourcing of supplies to provide renewable vitality
- Elevated deal with the maritime sector, together with oversight of doubtless damaging discharges into navigable waters
- Regulatory and coverage modifications within the automotive sector, notably concerning emissions and security rules
“Jonathan’s addition to the crew 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 will likely be invaluable to firms 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 accomplice and CIFIUS specialist Tyler McGaughey , M&A accomplice Kathleen Blaszak , appellate accomplice Andrew Tauber , and tax companions James Mastracchio and Susan Seabrook .
Winston & Strawn LLP is a world regulation agency with 15 places of work positioned all through North America , Asia , and Europe . Extra details about the agency is offered at www.winston.com .
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