WASHINGTON, Might 13, 2021 — Winston & Strawn
LLP is happy to announce the addition of Jonathan D.
Brightbill as companion 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, as properly
as complicated business disputes. His business litigation
expertise encompasses environmental and regulatory litigation,
enterprise disputes, false promoting, shopper safety, and
intensive class motion and citizen go well with protection work, in addition to
mental property reminiscent of patent, trademark, and commerce secret
disputes.
Jonathan served as Appearing Assistant Lawyer Common,
Setting & Pure Assets Division (“ENRD”), at
the USA Division of Justice. Because the nation’s lead
environmental litigator and legal and civil regulation enforcement
official, Jonathan led ENRD’s 425 legal professionals, dealing with 6,500
energetic issues, with an annual finances of $150 million.
Jonathan argued most of the authorities’s most important
appellate and district courtroom 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 Vitality 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 intensive
expertise on the intersection of litigation and coverage improvement
is invaluable for advising corporations on navigating more and more
complicated environmental regulation and federal enforcement
actions.
“Winston’s status 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 crew 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 anticipate
elevated federal regulation and enforcement on air emissions,
discharges to waters and land, and extra chemical and pesticide
regulation, together with limitations on ‘perpetually chemical substances’
like PFAS.”
Jonathan directed the litigation and briefing of scores of circumstances
in federal appellate and district courts across the nation,
protecting the entire main environmental and pure assets
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 general public
and personal sectors to lift the bar on environmental compliance
and sustainability,” stated David Rogers, managing companion
of Winston & Strawn’s Washington, D.C. workplace.
“Jonathan’s background is right to handle these complicated
authorized issues and we look ahead to his contributions.”
Jonathan gives steerage on probably the most important environmental
compliance points dealing with corporations immediately, together with:
- Prison 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 vitality
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 vitality - Elevated deal with the maritime sector, together with oversight of
probably damaging discharges into navigable waters - Regulatory and coverage modifications within the automotive sector,
notably relating to 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 present and increasing shopper base,” stated Winston
& Strawn Chairman Tom Fitzgerald. “Jonathan was the
principal federal litigator for environmental issues and served
amongst probably the most senior coverage and decision-makers on the
Division of Justice—experiences that shall 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 companion and CIFIUS specialist Tyler
McGaughey, M&A companion Kathleen Blaszak, appellate
companion Andrew Tauber, and tax companions James
Mastracchio and Susan Seabrook.
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