Alison Share is an associate based in Crowell & Moring's Washington, D.C. Office. She practices in the Public Policy, Product Risk Management, Environmental and Toxic Torts, and Torts groups. Her practice includes providing clients strategic counseling, policy advice, and litigation work in environmental and energy fields, with a particular interest in CERCLA-related issues.
Alison's recent work at Crowell includes:
· Assisting a client that runs a non-hazardous waste recycling center with a presentation to EPA Headquarters on various states' liquid waste disposal programs;
· Working with the Administrator of the Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response (RACER) Trust on numerous matters concerning the set-up and organization of the trust;
· Assisting a client in negotiations with the Department of Justice concerning the client's superfund site;
· Client counseling under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability, and Recovery Act (CERCLA), the Clean Air Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA);
· Representing clients in litigations covering the Death on the High Seas Act; defamation and interference with business relations; and fraud.
Alison is also active in pro bono matters that address a myriad of representations including:
· Assisting a Honduran woman with her application for asylum;
· Writing a petition for certiorari on behalf of a birth father seeking custody of his daughter;
· Writing an amicus curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court in support of a petition for certiorari for an individual on death row;
· Drafting a rulemaking petition to the USDA to amend regulations under the Animal Care Act on behalf of a client and lobbying Congressional offices to support the petition.
Alison is a monthly contributor to Loose Leaf, the blog of American Forests.
Alison clerked for the Honorable Peter W. Hall of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Alison earned her J.D. from Vermont Law School in 2008, graduating magna cum laude. While at Vermont Law School, Alison served as a managing editor of the Vermont Law Review as well as a research assistant for Professors Betsy Baker and Jackie Gardina. During law school, she also interned at the National Environmental Trust (now part of Pew Charitable Trust) as their climate change legal intern. Alison earned her B.A. from Smith College, where she majored in History with a minor in Economics.
Prior to law school Alison coached lacrosse and soccer in England and Ohio. She is an avid baseball fan who also loves snowboarding and the Smithsonian museums.
Affiliations
Member of the Board of Directors of GAYLAW, an organization for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Attorneys of Washington, D.C.
Publications
· "Recent Developments In Toxic Torts and Environmental Law," Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal (Winter 2010). Co-Authors: Beth M. Kramer, Gloria Martinez Trattles, Jessica A. Hall, Brandon G. Waggoner, Brian J. Weber, Alison L. Share, Adam Cullman, and Scott L. Winkelman.
· "Clean Water Act and Amendments; Other Environmental Regulatory Programs Affecting Coal Mining," EMLF Coal Law Short Course, Morgantown, WV (August 2009). Co-Authors: Kirsten L. Nathanson and Alison L. Share.
· "Regional Seas Agreement," Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2007). Co-Authors: Betsy B. Baker and Alison L. Share.