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By Brooks Igo
(April 20) – Gardere Wynne Sewell announced yesterday that environmental expert Laura Whiting is returning to private practice as a partner in the firm’s Dallas headquarters.
Whiting was most recently in-house at Occidental Chemical Corp., where she was senior counsel for the Houston-based oil and gas exploration company’s environmental, health, safety, process safety, product stewardship, quality assurance and security functions.
“It is a great pleasure to rejoin the Firm where I started my career,” Whiting said in a statement. “Gardere’s environmental attorneys are among the most respected in their field, and I am honored to join this highly regarded group of professionals.”
Whiting will focus her practice on assisting clients with compliance and permitting for heavily-regulated industry and real estate development.
Earlier in her career, the University of Texas School of Law graduate worked as an assistant regional counsel and enforcement attorney for Region 6 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In this capacity, she represented the government in multimedia, hazardous waste, federal facility and release reporting enforcement cases, regulatory development and policy matters.
Whiting sits on the board of directors of the Dixon Water Foundation, an organization dedicated to ensuring the present and future generations of Texans have the water resources they need. She is also a Texas state trustee for The Nature Conservancy and past chair of the Environmental Health Commission for the City of Dallas and the Dallas Nature Center, now Audubon’s Cedar Ridge Preserve.
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