W. Thomas Lavender, Jr. practices in the areas of environmental, administrative, natural resources, agricultural, and governmental law. Mr. Lavender is a former environmental engineer and staff attorney for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. Mr. Lavender holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University and a J.D. degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Career Highlights · Fellow, American College of Environmental Lawyers · Best Lawyers in America - Environmental Law · South Carolina Bar - Administrative and Regulatory Law Committee; Environmental and Natural Resources Section Chair; House of Delegates, Former Member; Government Law Section, Former Chairman · American Bar Association - Energy, Environment and Resources Section, Administrative and Regulatory Law Section · South Carolina Chamber of Commerce - Former Director, Legislative Agenda Task Force Member Representative Matters · SC Jurisprudence Experience · Court of Appeals of South Carolina.
GLASSCOCK COMPANY, INC., Waste Industries, Inc. and Wilson MacEwen, Appellants,
v.
SUMTER COUNTY, Frank Williams, Jr., Naomi Sanders, Carol Burr, Charles Edens, Louis Fleming, James Campbell, Rudy Singleton (members
of the County Council) and Waste Management, Inc., Respondents · Supreme Court of South Carolina.
SOUTHEAST RESOURCE RECOVERY, INC., Appellant,
v.
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, Involved Citizens of the Helena Community, Rev. Nura Ray Matthews, Chairman, Little Beaver Dam Baptist Church, John L. Hunter, Paul Herbert, Eugene Maybin, Jr., John and Jessie Reeder, Lillie May Washington, William W. Parr, Sr., Eliza M. Parr and Bill Parr, Jr., Respondents. · Court of Appeals of South Carolina.
SOIL REMEDIATION COMPANY and Yadkin Brick Company, Inc., Plaintiffs,
v.
NU-WAY ENVIRONMENTAL, INC., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, Respondent,
v.
CAROLINA EASTMAN DIVISION, a Division of Eastman Kodak Company, Third-Party Defendant, Yeargin, Inc., Third-Party Defendant, Appellant. · James E. EARLE, Respondent,
v.
Dr. Ezra Kenneth AYCOCK as Commissioner of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Appellant. · Opinion Letter - Office of the Attorney General State of South Carolina · Northeast Sanitary Landfill, Inc., and Container Corp. of Columbia v. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control News 62 Attorneys Named to the 2012 Edition of Best Lawyers®
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