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Law Seminars International: Natural Resource Damages Conference

2/7/2014

Jim Bruen, speaker, "Putting an NRD Case on Trial" at Law Seminars International Third Annual Advanced Conference on Natural Resource Damages. 

February 6 & 7, 2014, Washington, DC

For event details and registration, please click here.

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Discovery Builders Wins Complete Defense Ruling at Trial

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California Attorney General’s Office Files PFAS Lawsuit

The California Attorney General’s Office has turned its focus to PFAS, filing litigation that is likely to be one of the larger of the hundreds of PFAS-related lawsuits currently pending throughout the country. On...

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Trends Guest Editorial: Wildfires and Wineries

Link to the article in Gradient's Trends  Spring 2023 newsletter. Recurring wildfires in the Napa and Sonoma Counties of California have created a set of niche problems for the surrounding wineries, on top of...

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