Clients
Mr. Fitzpatrick has represented Fortune 500 companies, developers, manufacturing conglomerates, big box retailers, pipeline companies, oil companies, real estate investment firms, automakers (as well as Tier 1, 2, and 3 automotive suppliers), construction companies, chemical companies, public utilities, government contractors, banks, new-technology start-ups, film production companies and many others.
Providing Environmental Support to Other Law Firms:
Fitzpatrick Law occasionally serves as environmental counsel on matters originated by other law firms that do not have an environmental lawyer on staff. The originating firm typically retains responsibility for case management, with the Fitzpatrick firm reporting to and through the originating firm.
Sample Representations
Mr. Fitzpatrick has:
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Represented the developers of a 500-acre, $500-million golf course and resort development project with a complex permit path; environmental cleanups; numerous meetings with media, government officials and community representatives; responses to 450 official public comments; and 17 miles of bike paths linking distressed urban neighborhoods to a restored Great Lakes beach park and numerous nature observation stations.
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Environmental Counsel for the Creditors’ Committee in an SEC-mandated breakup of the industrial holdings of a legendary Wall Street bad boy and corporate raider.
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Advised the developer of a multi-parcel-assemblage $300,000,000+ marina project on the Atlantic seaboard involving complex remediation, permitting, design and wildlife issues.
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Advised a client corporation regarding a 1,000,000 square-foot Midwest RCRA manufacturing facility in connection with on-going compliance and enforcement matters, third-party litigation, and a clean-up project that employed innovative bioremediation technologies to manage a migratory groundwater plume a half-mile wide.
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Represented a 16-member Superfund Steering Committee in connection with a $100 million cleanup and federal court litigation on two fronts.
In-house/Outside Environmental Counsel Services
Paul Fitzpatrick is available to serve as in-house environmental counsel -- for specified periods and identified projects -- for corporations that do not have the required expertise on staff. Fitzpatrick has entered into such arrangements with corporations of various sizes while retaining his status as an attorney in an outside law firm. In one instance, he served as the in-house environmental lawyer for a Fortune 50 company with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. He met with the company’s Environmental, Health & Safety staff on a regular basis, presented at in-house training sessions, trimmed legal costs, and helped assisted in-house staff to identify upcoming capital expenditures, finalize budgets, set reserves, and implement operational cost reduction programs.
Professional Network
Fitzpatrick Law has established a broad professional network within Michigan and throughout the country. Its founder has served as lead or common counsel in multi-party matters in which groups of corporations retain a single firm to command point. He also has worked on complex transactions and litigation matters as co-counsel in cooperation with other law firms. Over the years, Fitzpatrick has worked as common counsel or co-counsel with attorneys from the following firms, to name only a few:
Jones Day
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
White & Case
Baker & McKenzie
Miller Canfield
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Butzel Long
Foley & Lardner
Enwright Advisors
Sheppard, Mullin
Dykema, Gosett
The Bracewell Firm
Couzens, Lansky
Pepper, Hamilton
Skadden Arps
Honigman, Miller
Makower Abbate Guerra
Kirkland & Ellis