April, 2012

Environmental

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP E. KARMEL: The next segment of the program is environmental due diligence and drafting environmental provisions in business and real estate transactions. We have three people who will be speaking. The first is Joyce Schlesinger. Joyce is another member of ENVIRON International. The same top-notch environmental consulting firm that David Thomas was from. And Joyce founded the due diligence practice group at ENVIRON, where she's been a consultant ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP KARMEL: We're now going to stop talking about things in general, and talk about climate change in particular. The topic of my presentation is regulatory developments in the climate change arena. And if you talk about climate change, you have to always have the science introduction. And since most people are familiar with this already, we're going to do this very quickly. We have the sun and the earth. Rays from the sun hit the earth. Much ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP KARMEL: --water quality, hydrofracking, and vapor intrusion. So it's a bit of a grab bag of different issues. I'm very pleased that we have such a distinguished panel that will be presenting this afternoon. The first presenter will be Kathy Robb. She's a partner in the New York office of Hunton & Williams. Her practice focuses on environmental law, and in particular litigation at the state and federal level pertaining to water, and to ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Well, it's 3 o'clock, so we can start the last segment of our program. I'm very pleased that my law partner, Jim Altman in the New York office of Bryan Cave has agreed to speak to us today. It's a sign of how complex the legal profession is that even lawyers like me need a lawyer, and Jim is my lawyer. And when I run into a sticky situation, which happens, you know, infrequently, meaning once every few years, I go to Jim and he tells me ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP E. KARMEL: If our next panel could come up. The next set of speakers will be discussing practical aspects of managing compliance. So we have the Code of Federal Regulations and the state counterparts fill up multiple bookshelves, and corporations have very complicated operations. So how does this all get done as a practical matter? And that's what this panel is going to be discussing. We have two speakers. And this is going to be done as a ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP E. KARMEL: Well, we're up to our next segment of the program which is on environmental disclosure and environmental enforcement. And we have two speakers. The first will be on environmental disclosure that will be Betty Moy Huber. She's with the New York City law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell. Which is one of the top corporate and capital markets law firms in the city. And Betty is the co-head in the environmental group at Davis Polk. She ...