Michael S McMahon | Attorney

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About Michael

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.

Admission

Verified Ohio

1981

Education

John Carroll University

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