Lynn Manolopoulos represents a wide range of industrial, commercial and individual clients in matters involving environmental state and federal laws and regulations. Her experience includes enforcement defense, environmental compliance counseling, Brownfields redevelopment, permitting and defense of cost recovery and citizen suit litigation. Lynn is a chemical engineer whose legal experience covers a full spectrum of environmental issues, from regulatory and litigation matters and compliance counseling to transactions involving contaminated property refinance and development.

Lynn focuses on her client relationships and adjusts her approach and style to meet not only the goals of the client but also the risk tolerance. She communicates with her clients on a regular basis making her relationships strong and allowing her to be a trusted advisor to her clients for questions beyond environmental issues.

Expererience

• Defended Washington salmon aquaculture industry in appeal by environmental groups of waste discharge permits for eight facilities. Judgment in favor of industry clients. PCHB Nos. 96-257 through 96-268 (Wash. Pollution Control Hearings Board); affirmed on appeal to Washington State Superior Court.
• Negotiated and assisted in implementation of an Administrative Order on Consent with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the performance of a Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study at a site located along Lake Washington in the Seattle area. (Ongoing)
• Negotiated consent decrees with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and settlements with site Potentially Responsible Parties to resolve site cleanup liability.
• Defending major oil company in complex environmental claims involving state cleanup demands in Washington and Alaska.

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

We’re on a straight retainer with one of our largest clients, with no billable hours. We built our own staffing agency so we could offer the flexibility and cost savings of contract professionals but maintain control over quality, service standards and client integration. We won national innovation awards three years running, based on developing new and better ways of serving clients. And then we quit competing for those awards, so we could just focus on our clients.

We combine the focus, flexibility and personal connections of a boutique, with the scope, scale and resources of an AmLaw 100 firm – but without the drawbacks of either. Finding that balance has put us in a good place. We have out-performed the vast majority of the AmLaw 100 over the past several years but we haven’t forgotten who we are: open, humble, user-friendly, committed to service. We’re pretty sure you’ll be happy you chose us.