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The Goal of This Video Leadership Seminar is to Provide Executives and Lawyers With Essential Information About Environmental Laws and Legal Matters

Posted on: Thursday, 11 October 2007, 09:00 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c71255) has announced the addition of "Legal Strategies for Compliance with Environmental Laws: Video Leadership Seminar with Kenneth Reich of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP" to their offering.

The goal of this Video Leadership Seminar is to provide executives and lawyers with essential information about environmental laws and legal matters. The DVD is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 60 minutes of live video with Kenneth A. Reich of Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP, sharing his knowledge and experience on compliance strategies and dealing with the legal side of potential environmental issues. The Video Leadership Seminar provides specific resources such as the most important laws, strategies to comply, and a look at the future of environmental compliance.

Topics covered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:

Clean Air Act And Green house gases

Power plants, factories, and transportation compliance with the new regulations

Needing to be ahead of the curve to succeed

Steps to develop a legal compliance program

Support of company and management people to successfully integrate compliance programs

Audit programs and how to manage it effectively

Financial effects; in the future companies will eventually save money by staying ahead of the curve

Samples of the types of questions answered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:

What are the current prominent environmental cases?

What new compliance issues are being introduced? What is behind the new issues?

How does the history of the environmental law impact current compliance challenges?

What are the elements of most legal strategies?

What industries are most active in environmental compliance?

What process is used to identify all the compliance issues for the firm or the client?

How can technology be used to help comply with environmental laws?

What factors are considered when identifying the legal strategic alternatives?

What client or firm resources are involved in the legal strategy and compliance efforts?

How must compliance be communicated to stakeholders? What methods are recommended?

What are the environmental laws of concern to most companies?

What are the consequences of violating the laws?

How does the strategy address the risks of non-compliance?

What role does negotiation play in the legal strategy?

Which local, state, and federal agencies are involved in environmental compliance?

About the Author

Kenneth A. Reich is a partner in WolfBlocks Environmental and Land Use Practice Group. He is also a member of WolfBlock Public Strategies LLC and of the firms Business Litigation Practice Group. He has a broad and long-standing environmental law, federal regulatory law and general litigation background. He counsels clients regarding compliance with health, safety and environmental laws and represents buyers, sellers and financial institutions with regard to the environmental issues in complex commercial transactions. He is engaged in representing power industry clients in the permitting and construction of new electric generation facilities. He has handled complex and high-profile litigation and major transactions for corporations, institutions and public entities with respect to a wide range of environmental matters. Mr. Reich was formerly a trial attorney and Assistant Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC, where he handled major enforcement cases under the principal federal statutes and supervised a group of trial attorneys.

Mr. Reich also handles general commercial litigation, including patent and intellectual property litigation, and provides federal regulatory advice to his clients. Mr. Reich speaks and writes frequently on environmental law topics to industry groups and bar associations. He is the author of the chapter on the "Massachusetts Clean Air Act" in Massachusetts Environmental Law (MCLE) and the co-author of "Environmental Crimes and Penalties Are Down, But the Beat Goes On," published in Trends, the newsletter of the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, American Bar Association (July/August 2003). He recently spoke to the Association of American Railroads on the topic of emission reduction credits under the federal and state Clean Air acts. He spoke at the 2005 Legal Seminar of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association on the subject of new issues in the permitting of power plants.

A long-standing active member of the ABA's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, Mr. Reich is also co-chair of the Environmental Litigation Committee of the Boston Bar Association. He is a trained mediator. In addition, Mr. Reich has served as a board member of the Volunteer Lawyers Project and as a pro bono mediator/evaluator for the Boston Bar-Boston Municipal Court ADR Project. Mr. Reich is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Maryland, Montana and the District of Columbia. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1972) and Cornell University (B.A.).

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c71255

Source: Business Wire

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