Richard A. Horder

Richard A. Horder

Rick Horder is the head of the Atlanta Environmental, Land Use and Natural Resources Team. He has broad-ranging experience in all areas of environmental law, from negotiating permits through litigating environmental cases. He has successfully negotiated numerous air, water, and solid and hazardous waste permits, and has worked extensively on behalf of clients in matters involving regulations promulgated under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation Recovery Act, CERCLA, EPCRA, the Endangered Species Act, and other environmental statutes. Mr. Horder has experience in asbestos, formaldehyde, PCB, dioxin, and other toxic tort personal injury litigation, having defended numerous such cases. He has substantial experience in representing clients in citizen suits and agency enforcement actions, particularly under the Clean Water Act, as well as suits seeking compensation for natural resources damages and property contamination.

Selected Experience

· Former Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of Georgia (Civil Division), from 1974 through 1977 representing numerous federal agencies including EPA, FDA, and CPSC, and defending Federal Tort Claims Act matters.

· Regional Counsel for Georgia-Pacific Corporation where he was responsible for environmental matters and general litigation. Later Associate General Counsel with Georgia-Pacific where he was directly responsible for environmental compliance and environmental and toxic tort litigation corporate-wide, and supervised corporate and business matters for the Chemical Division.

Background

· Member of the American Bar Association, and has served as Chair or Vice-Chair of various state and American Bar Association committees and subcommittees.

· He is a former Chairman of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia and he has been Vice Chair of the Committee on Toxic and Hazardous Substances and Environmental Law of the Section of Tort and Insurance Practice of the American Bar Association since 1990.

· Authored numerous papers on environmental law, toxic tort litigation, and litigation management, and is a frequent seminar lecturer on these subjects.

· Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Environmental Law since 2005.

· Listed as #1 in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers for Environmental Law.

· Listed in the 2007 Georgia Super Lawyers for Environmental Law.

· AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.