Thomas G. Echikson has joined LeClairRyan as a partner in the Environmental and Compliance, Investigations and White Collar Defense Practice Area teams. He will be resident in the national law firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Echikson focuses his practice on environmental litigation, regulatory counseling, permitting, advocacy and toxic tort defense. He regularly defends clients in civil and criminal enforcement matters under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, CERCLA, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. He counsels clients and litigates cases involving claims for costs and damages associated with contaminated properties, including toxic tort defense, contaminated site cleanup, cost recovery and natural resource damage issues. Additionally, he represents clients in administrative and regulatory rulemaking, permitting and variance proceedings before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and agencies within the Department of Interior, including challenges to and defense of federal environmental and natural resource regulations in the District Courts and Courts of Appeal. A large part of Echikson’s practice involves providing counsel to clients regarding compliance with and litigation arising under NEPA and other natural resource laws in the context of federal permitting and authorizations.
He is graduate of Northwestern University School of Law (J.D.) and Dartmouth College (A.B.). He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.
