Environmental Liabilities and Transactional Issues

Land Use Law

• Kentucky, 1979

• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky
• U.S. District Court Western District of Kentucky
• Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Kentucky State University, M.P.A., 1989
• University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, J.D., 1978
• University of Louisville, B.A., 1975, with honors

Dennis is the vice-chair of the Firm’s environmental department. He represents clients with respect to issues concerning permitting and compliance in the waste, air and water programs.

Experience

Dennis spent nine years with the Department of Law (now Office of Legal Services), Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet (now Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet), where he served as manager of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Legal Branch and Director of Environmental Protection Legal Division. He also served as the representative of the Cabinet on the Environmental Crimes Workgroup.

He has represented and counseled clients in a broad range of administrative proceedings before environmental agencies, including USEPA Region 4; the Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet, Office of Administration Hearings; and the Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District. In addition to representing clients in administrative litigation before these agencies he has litigated environmental issues in the Kentucky Circuit Courts and the Federal Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, including the defense of toxic tort actions.

• The Best Lawyers in America® 2003-2012
• Chambers USA® America's Leading Business Lawyers 2008-2011
• Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®

• Kentucky Bar Association
• Greater Louisville, Inc. Environmental Affairs Committee, Chair of the Air Toxics Task Force