Samuel Brown
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Biography
As a former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) attorney, Sam utilizes his agency, regulatory, enforcement, and practical experience to help his clients navigate environmental, energy, natural resource, sustainability, and climate-related concerns associated with US- and international-based facilities and operations.
Sam’s practice focuses on three core areas—navigating federal and state environmental laws, implementing sustainability and climate-related decarbonization strategies, and minimizing legal and reputational risks associated with international project development and global operations. He is a member of the nationwide environmental team’s leadership group, including the nationwide hiring and strategy partner and the San Francisco office hiring partner. He is also the co-lead of the firm’s global product stewardship and sustainability practice, its business and human rights practice, and its environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) practice. Sam leverages his experience as a former attorney with the EPA, in the Office of Regional Counsel in San Francisco (Region 9) and in New York (Region 2), and the Office of General Counsel in Washington, DC.
Sam assists clients, in part, with complying with federal and state environmental laws, including compliance counseling, obtaining regulatory authorizations, facility and corporate audits, project and transactional due diligence, citizen suits, administrative and civil enforcement defense, and litigation. His clients rely on his experience when navigating the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; the Safe Drinking Water Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; the National Environmental Policy Act; the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act; the Endangered Species Act; and, state-equivalent environmental, natural resource, health and safety, and consumer product-related statutes.
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Recent courses taught
Winter Term 2022