Holland & Hart LLP

As environmental issues have climbed to the top of the national agenda, companies in almost every industry have found that one or more environmental laws apply to their operations. More regulations, along with heightened environmental awareness, present businesses with many difficult and potentially costly challenges.

We have been practicing environmental law since the early 1970s -- before it became fashionable. With such a long history, we have become the leading environmental firm in the Rocky Mountain Region and one of the leading environmental law firms in the country. Many of our lawyers practice solely or primarily in environmental law, each specializing in one or two specific subareas. We do work for clients nationwide on virtually every aspect of environmental law, whether transactional, regulatory or litigation.

Our environmental practice addresses our clients' wide range of legal needs such as the environmental aspects of business transactions, environmental permitting, ongoing compliance advice, environmental audits, enforcement action defense, remedial actions (such as Superfund), legislative and rulemaking developments, and a wide variety of environmental litigation.

We are oriented towards "proactive" environmental law, using sensible environmental compliance measures such as audits and employee training to prevent problems from occurring. If problems do occur, we are ready and able to effectively defend (or prosecute) toxic tort suits, government enforcement actions, or any other type of environmental litigation.

Our environmental law expertise includes:

• Solid and hazardous waste
• Superfund
• Underground storage tanks
• Toxic and radioactive substances
• Water quality and air quality
• Protection of endangered species and other wildlife, vegetation and cultural resources
• Mined land reclamation
• Advice concerning legislative and rulemaking development
• Environmental impact assessments and statements
• Environmental litigation, including the defense of civil and criminal enforcement actions

Our practice encompasses recent or ongoing projects in Alaska, Alabama, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, California, New Mexico, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri, Washington, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota and South Carolina. We have participated actively in numerous regulatory developments in Washington, D.C.

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.