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| Foster Pepper’s Jeff Lane Selected to Working Group for Global ... |
| September 1, 2010 – Jeff Lane, an Associate in Foster Pepper’s Health Care practice group, has been selected to serve on the Working Group and Public-Private Partnership Subcommittee for Global Health Nexus, Seattle. Global Health Nexus, Seattle is an initiative of the Washington Global Health Alliance in partnership with the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association and Prosperity Partnership.
The goals of Global Health Nexus are to:
Raise the region’s profiles as an innovative leader in global health and life sciences;
Engage and ... |
| Stormwater Runoff from Logging Roads Requires Discharge Permit |
| August 18, 2010 - In a precedent-setting opinion,1 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that stormwater runoff from logging roads that is collected in ditches, culverts and channels and discharged to surface water requires a water quality discharge permit.2 While this case involves stormwater discharges from logging roads, the Court’s decision could affect other activities that rely on regulatory exemptions from the discharge permit requirements.
The timber industry and the EPA argued that (1) the Silvicultural Rule3 exempts logging road discharges ... |
| ABA Appoints Foster Pepper’s Greg Guedel National Chair for ... |
| August 9, 2010 - The American Bar Association has appointed Greg Guedel, Chair of Foster Pepper’s Native American Legal Services Group, as Chair of the ABA’s national Native American Concerns Committee. The Committee works to harness the vast resources of the ABA to guide the development of federal law in support of Tribal sovereignty and self-governance, and furthers the federal trust responsibility and government-to-government relationship between Tribes and the United States. Committee members educate elected officials, the federal judiciary, and legal ... |
| 30 Foster Pepper Attorneys Named as Best Lawyers® for 2011 |
| August 6, 2010 - Foster Pepper PLLC recently announced that 30 attorneys were named as Best Lawyers®, by Woodward/White, Inc. for its 2011 publication. Additionally, six of the firm’s practices were top ranked.
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers® is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are ... |
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