Ms. Brooke Frankel Dickerson Related Seminars and Products

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Brooke Dickerson focuses her practice on environmental and construction transaction, regulatory, compliance, and permitting matters. With regards to environmental work, she has significant experience with Brownfields, Superfund (CERCLA), hazardous waste (RCRA and HWMA), the Georgia Hazardous Site Response Act (HSRA), solid waste, wetlands, and NPDES, as well as site evaluation, assessment, and remediation issues. She also advises clients on pesticide regulatory requirements, stormwater compliance, green leasing issues, and green/sustainable building practices. Brooke assists clients with the negotiation, documentation, coordination, and closing of real property purchase and sale transactions, and corporate mergers and acquisitions; defense of regulatory enforcement and penalty actions; compliance counseling; evaluation, selection and coordination of environmental assessment, and remedial actions; contractual allocation of risk from environmental contamination; and federal and state cost recovery and contribution actions. She has particular expertise in Brownfields protections and obtaining tax abatements and other incentives related thereto.

Prior to joining AGG, Brooke was an assistant regional counsel with Region IV of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, working primarily in CERCLA, RCRA, water (wetlands and NPDES), and underground storage tanks.

Ms. Andrea Lee Rimer Related Seminars and Products

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

Andrea Rimer is a Partner in the Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group at Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP in Atlanta.  For more than 25 years, Andrea has represented buyers, sellers and lenders in the purchase and sale of real property and corporate assets across the U.S., with a particular focus on state and federal brownfield and voluntary remediation programs; hazardous site investigation and cleanup; underground storage tank regulation; and hazardous waste management. 

Andrea graduated with highest honors from the University of Georgia in 1993, and with honors from Harvard Law School in 1996. She is a past president (2007) of the Georgia Bar Environmental Law Section, a 2014 graduate of the Institute of Georgia Environmental Leadership, and currently serves as the Vice President and Treasurer of the Georgia Brownfield Association and is the Executive Editor of the flagship publication of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, the Natural Resources & Environment magazine.

Ms. Paula J. Frederick Related Seminars and Products

General Counsel

State Bar of Georgia

Paula Frederick is General Counsel for the State Bar of Georgia, a unified bar organization with 54,000 members. As general counsel, Frederick is responsible for interpreting the ethics rules for lawyers, prosecuting lawyer discipline cases, and providing legal advice to the officers and directors of the organization. She has served in the Office of the General Counsel for 35 years, and was Deputy General Counsel for Discipline before assuming the General Counsel role.

Frederick is a 1982 graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Law and a 1979 graduate of Duke University. Prior to joining the Office of the General Counsel, she spent six years as a staff attorney with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society handling civil legal matters for low-income people.

Frederick is a past president of the Atlanta Bar Association and the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys. She is also an active member of the American Bar Association, where she is chair of the Center for Professional Responsibility.  In the past she has served the ABA as chair of its Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, chair of the Standing Committee on Lawyer Regulation, as a member of the Board of Governors, and as chair of the Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity. 

Marjorie Hall Related Seminars and Products

NewFields

Marjorie Hall is a researcher and historian at NewFields, an Atlanta-based environmental engineering consulting firm. She has twenty years of experience doing scientific, technical, and historical research related to complex environmental issues and legacy waste disposal sites. She does in-depth online and on-site investigations of industrial history, historical standard practice, federal and state regulatory history, and social and demographic impacts. For the last ten years, Hall has assisted clients with Environmental Justice analysis, utilizing a variety of approaches closely tailored to unique site conditions and evolving guidance. She has a M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University Illinois and an M.S. in the History and Sociology of Science and Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Kevin McGowan Related Seminars and Products

Contour Engineering

Kevin McGowan possesses 25 years of experience in the environmental industry with a broad experience base in a variety of environmental compliance areas. His areas of expertise lie in property redevelopment, site assessment, large-scale remedial construction and brownfield properties.  Mr. McGowan also has extensive experience with remedial system design and implementation on private, state and federal facilities and installations. Mr. McGowan’s primary focus is assessing and remediating environmentally distressed assets in Georgia working through the Georgia EPD’s HSRA, USTMP, Brownfield and VRP units.