Greenberg Traurig Adds Environmental Shareholder Neal H. Weinfield
CHICAGO, IL -- February 20, 2006 -- The international law firm Greenberg
Traurig, LLP announced today that
Neal H. Weinfield has joined its Chicago
office as shareholder. Weinfield has more than 18 years of environmental
experience and joins the firm from Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLC, where he was
a member.
Weinfield focuses his practice on the defense of civil, criminal and
administrative enforcement actions brought under the full panoply of environmental,
health and safety laws. A member of the Federal Trial Bar, he actively litigates
a wide range of environmental matters. He counsels clients on regulatory
compliance and the environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions.
Weinfield also has broad experience in highly technical scientific matters,
including chemistry, physics, environmental fate and transport, geology,
hydrogeology, epidemiology and toxicology, and has a solid understanding
of economic and business principles and trends.
“We are very pleased to welcome Neal to the firm. Neal brings a broad
range of environmental experience to GT which will further strengthen the
services we can offer our clients both nationally and in Chicago," said
Keith J. Shapiro, co-managing shareholder of the Chicago office.
Weinfield earned his juris doctorate from Vanderbilt University School
of Law in 1987, and his bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Cornell
University in 1984.
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with 1,500
attorneys and governmental affairs professionals in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The
firm is ranked seventh on The American Lawyer's Am Law 100 listing of the
largest law firms in the U.S., based on number of lawyers.
Greenberg Traurig serves clients from offices in: Albany, NY; Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; Atlanta, GA; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Denver,
CO; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL;
Morristown, NJ; New York, NY; Orange County, CA; Orlando, FL; Philadelphia, PA;
Phoenix, AZ; Sacramento, CA; Silicon Valley, CA; Tallahassee, FL; Tokyo, Japan;
Tysons Corner, VA; Washington, D.C.; West Palm Beach, FL; Wilmington, DE; and Zurich,
Switzerland. Additionally, the firm has strategic alliances with the following independent
law firms: Olswang, London and Brussels; Studio Santa Maria, Milan and Rome; and
Hayabusa Kokusai Law Offices in Tokyo.
For additional information, please visit the firm's Web site at
www.gtlaw.com.
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