Baker Botts understands what drives government enforcement and has the experience and legal acumen to represent clients in significant environmental and safety incidents worldwide.
With a bench of former government attorneys that understand what drives government enforcement, including the former Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice along with others who served inside federal and state environmental agencies, we bring sound commercial judgment, strategic insights, and broad-based experiences to addressing our clients’ most challenging environmental enforcement matters.
Environmental and Worker Safety Civil Enforcement. We have a long track record of assisting clients with civil enforcement matters under air, water, waste, toxic substances and safety regulatory programs. Issues we help our clients navigate include:
Environmental and Worker Safety Criminal Enforcement. We manage internal investigations prompted by inquiries by government agents and defend companies and corporate executives charged with criminal violations of the environmental and workplace safety law. Issues we help our clients navigate include:
Internal Investigations. We support our clients by collaborating on environmental or safety investigations and audits, including the use of all available privileges and protections to maintain confidentiality.
Compliance Monitors. In the wake of non-compliance, courts and agencies may appoint monitors to oversee a company’s compliance with certain probationary terms, plea agreements, consent decrees or suspension and debarment agreements. Our lawyers have been selected to serve as independent monitors in these situations.
Suspension & Debarment. Companies that criminally violate environmental and workplace safety laws risk suspension and debarment from federal government programs and contracts. Our lawyers routinely handle suspension and debarment matters before agencies with an eye towards minimizing negative impacts on their business operations.