Business does not like government; and it does not like regulation. The fact is that government exists, government regulates and business needs to interface with government in order to get what it wants. Over a forty year career, I’ve learned that you will get out of government what you convince the government to give to you. Based on my experience, I can summarize a successful approach to getting what you want as follows: Step 1....
Environmental Law 101: Been There, Done That, From the Beginning.
Life sometimes just happens. I was lucky. I always wanted to be a lawyer. I didn’t know what lawyering was about or what lawyers did, but my grandfather was a lawyer and, even though I never knew him, I have his DNA. When I attended law school at the University of Wisconsin, I learned about civil procedure, contract law, evidence, the Uniform Commercial Code and other electrifying subjects. Environmental law was not on the curriculum....