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Robert Stewart

 
Partner - Kelly, Hart & Hallman
 
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Company Name : Kelly, Hart & Hallman
 
Company Website : www.khh.com
 
Company Address : 201 Main St.
Ste. 2500, Fort Worth, TX,
United States,
 
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Robert Stewart Biography :

Biography

Robert T. Stewart joined Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP in 2003 and is a partner in and head of the Environmental and Administrative Law practice group. During the previous 26 years of his legal career, Mr. Stewart was an equity partner at two of the country’s largest law firms. He provides legal counsel to a wide range of industrial clients, focusing on air pollution control, toxic torts, environmental criminal investigations, cost recovery for waste remediation and environmental enforcement defense. He represents a broad array of industrial and commercial clients in administrative and federal and state court proceedings. Mr. Stewart has extensive experience in handling matters before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Stewart worked as a chemical engineer for Union Carbide Corporation.

Mr. Stewart is listed as one of the leading environmental lawyers in the state of Texas by Chambers Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Stewart is a 1977 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Order of the Coif. He received his Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1973. He was Chair of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas in 2001-2002.

Outside of his professional practice, Mr. Stewart is head of the Austin chapter of the Lehigh University Alumni Association. He and his wife, Susan, are members of Grace Covenant Church, where Bob is a Stephen Leader. The Stephen Ministry provides lay people with 50 hours of training and peer supervision to help care for people who are navigating through hard times.

Education & Honors

Lehigh University, B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 1973

University of Michigan Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1977

Order of the Coif

Listed in Chambers USA: Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2007

Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America

Named in Who's Who Legal: Texas 2007

Named as one of the top attorneys in Texas by Texas Super Lawyers magazine, 2007

Admission & Affiliations

Ohio, 1977

Texas, 1981

California, 1991

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 1981

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1986

U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, 1991

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1981

Member, State Bar of Texas (Chair, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section, 2001)

Significant Matters

General Motors - major successful federal Clean Air Act litigation against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal district court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Various companies - extensive national criminal investigations by the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Department of Justice and several U.S. Attorneys' offices

Various clients - successful litigation of a number of toxic tort lawsuits

General Motors, Bridgestone/Firestone, and other companies - negotiation and litigation of Title V permits throughout the country

Aviall - representation in substantial waste cleanup matters throughout the country and successful recovery of remediation costs from insurers

Various companies - representation in state and federal waste remediation cases such as Conservation Chemical, Hardage and Sonics

Publications & Speeches

"Compliance with Air Emissions Standards in the Oil and Gas Industry," presented at the SBOT Advanced Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Course, October 1, 2004

"Clean Air Impact on Real Estate Development: Legal and Political Strategies," CLE International, Houston, Texas, February 2002

"Environmental Issues: Is Your Product Safe for the Environment?" Tools of the Trade: A 21st Century Life Science Roadmap for Texas, Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute, Austin, June 2000

"The Clean Air Act Connection: Transportation and Air Quality," Land Use Conference, CLE International, Austin, January 2000

 
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