Michael S McMahon, Attorney

Background

• Mike has practiced in almost every area of environmental law over the past 24 years
• Mike prefers to concentrate on securing permanent solutions to environmental law problems

Areas of Experience and Focus

• Clean Air Act
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
• Environmental Management Systems and Auditing
• Environmental Compliance Counseling and Permitting
• Enforcement actions; transportation of hazardous materials
• Environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions
• Complex air work and indemnity negotiation with predecessor operator at manufacturing facility in Ohio
• Negotiating Title V permits for facilities involved in coatings, batch processing, continuous processing and chemical manufacturing
• Defending facilities involved in air permit enforcement actions brought by US EPA/Ohio EPA
• Advising facilities confronting RACT/BACT/LEAR requirements

Achievements/Honors

• Nationally recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2010
• Listed as "SuperLawyer" 2009 by Law & Politics
• Named by Chambers & Partners as a leading practitioner in Environmental Law in Ohio, 2004-2009
• Obtained a favorable opinion in a RCRA citizen suit case resulting in a limitation of such causes of action

Professional Involvement

• Served as Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Cleveland Bar Association
• Chaired the Ohio State Bar Association Environmental Law Committee annual seminar

Publications and Presentations

• "Environmental Risk Update: What's Coming But Not Here Yet", Risk and Insurance Management Society, November 2009
• "Environmentally Friendly Development, Design and Construction and the Risks Therein", Half Moon Seminars, July 2009
• "Corporate Infrastructure Requirements: Risk, Liability and Transparency", The Conference Board, January 2009
• Co-Author (with Greg DeGulis) of "Old Fashioned Partnership—Cutting-Edge Law," Founding A Law Firm (2008 Thomson/Aspatore)
• "Sustainable Risk Management," Northeast Ohio Association of Corporate Counsel, January 2008
• "Impact of Climate Change on Environmental Management Systems", presented to the Northern Ohio Chapter of Air & Waste Management Association, October 2006
• Co-Author (with James Friedman) of The Silent Alliance (Regnery Gateway), an analysis of acid rain and electricity import issues
• "Basic Environmental Statutes in a Nutshell"
• "Things Not to Say to an Inspector"
• Co-Author: "Ohio Adopts a Model Law to Promote Voluntary Cleanup of Contaminated Property," Journal of Environmental Permitting, Spring 1995.
• "Does the Sixth Circuit Have a New Standard for Its Review of the EPAs Use of Air Quality Monitoring?" 18 Toledo Law Review 569.