MehaffyWeber, P.C.

MehaffyWeber has a wide-ranging environmental law practice covering many aspects of the federal and state environmental regulations. Our environmental clients range from multi-national chemical concerns to municipalities to sole proprietorships.

We provide counseling and representation in the following areas:

• Permitting, licensing and registration applications and hearings
• Compliance counseling and enforcement defense
• Transactional issues, including audits, due diligence and allocation of environmental risk; and
• Litigation of air, soil, water, groundwater and underground contamination and cleanup issues

The lawyers practicing in this area have varied experience and training in the environmental field. For example, Jim Graves, a shareholder in the Houston office, has 30 years experience counseling environmental clients. Paul Heyburn successfully defended his clients in the Eastern District of Texas in a lengthy trial related to the Turtle Bayou waste site. M. C. Carrington and Sandra Clark successfully defended our client in an alleged deep well contamination case that was named a Top 10 Defense Verdict by the National Law Journal.

We are committed to diversity in our workplace. Diversity is a strength that enables us to bring a broader perspective to the problems faced by our clients. It also promotes a higher quality of work and enriches our work environment. Accordingly, it is our goal to foster and maintain a firm-wide culture that supports diversity in order that all employees and attorneys feel welcome, included, valued, supported and able to succeed. We believe that a diverse workforce makes us a better law firm.

We recruit, retain and promote attorneys who are examples of diversity. In addition to supporting the professional careers of women and minorities, we believe that our clients benefit from the varied perspectives and life experiences that all individuals bring to our firm. Since the late 1980's, women have been elected members of the firm's management and compensation committees. Today, many of the leadership roles are filled by female attorneys who represent almost 1/3 of the equity shareholders of the firm.

For more than 15 years, MehaffyWeber has been proud to co-host with DuPont a minority job fair for hundreds of law students from Texas and neighboring states. These students are provided the opportunity to interview with law firms and service providers for summer associate positions and regular associate positions with these firms. Our attorneys regularly volunteer in our minority communities.