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Julie A. Weisman is an environmental attorney with almost 25 years of experience and is located in our Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Weisman has an extensive environmental practice, which revolves around litigation, enforcement, and hazardous waste issues, as well as the assistance of clients on environmental issues that arise in commercial transactions. In that respect, she has represented buyers, sellers, borrowers and lenders in commercial negotiations worldwide and frequently has been involved in the remediation of contamination associated with such transactions. Ms. Weisman attended Duke University as an undergraduate and obtained her law degree from Emory University in 1982. At that time, she entered the Honors Program at the US Department of Justice in the Lands and Natural Resources Division and served as a trial attorney there until 1986. She did a short stint at the National Wildlife Federation and has been in private practice even since. As a result of this background, Ms. Weisman has a broad breadth of experience in environmental matters. She also has particular areas of expertise. For example, she defends clients in enforcement actions brought by EPA, OSHA, and state regulatory agencies. She has successfully defended clients involved in enforcement matters under a variety of federal statutes, including RCRA, CERCLA, the Clean Air Act and the OSH Act. In addition, Ms. Weisman has been a litigator throughout her career and has handled all aspects of private litigation under CERCLA, including the initiation of, and the defense of, cost recovery actions. Finally, she recently has developed a special interest in exposure issues, particularly related to the presence of heavy metals, asbestos and mold. Representative Client Work Prepared the environmental due diligence review for a client involved in the purchase of over twenty manufacturing facilities in China Managed for a client the environmental contamination issues on properties associated with the purchase of a company emerging from bankruptcy Represented a large European company involved in the prospective purchase of a major US utility Assisted a client, who had almost sole responsibility for a leaking municipal landfill, in reducing the cleanup costs by almost $16 million dollars Assisted numerous clients involved in real estate transactions with environmental and contamination issues on properties related to the transactions Co-chaired a multi-million dollar cost recovery action under CERCLA for a major Northeast utility Successfully defeated, on statute of limitations grounds, all claims raised against a client in a contribution action brought by the Environmental Protection Agency Recently represented a client subject to claims, raised by a whistleblower, by three regulatory agencies and successfully had all claims dismissed Bar Admissions Connecticut, 1982 New York, 1985 District of Columbia, 1996 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Teaching & Speaking Engagements Former instructor for George Washington University s continuing education program Nationwide speaker for Government Institutes and ABS Education J.D., Emory University School of Law B.A., Duke University | 