John Gilmour Named Co-Chair of Environmental Practice Group

John Gilmour, partner in the Houston office, has been named co-chair of the firm’s Environmental practice group. With partner Wayne D’Angelo, John leads a team with deep experience providing counsel to clients on regulatory, compliance, and enforcement matters. In addition, the nationally recognized group has represented states, port authorities, and other government entities in the most sophisticated and largest contamination and natural resource damages cases in the United States.

John serves public and private sector clients in matters addressing remediation and restoration, including natural resource damages in state, territorial, and federal courts. He focuses his environmental practice on contaminated groundwater, surface waterways, and industrial and mining sites, including natural resources injured from years of industrial activities; chemical and weapons manufacturing processes; and mining operations. He has worked on some of the country’s most significant environmental matters involving the largest contaminated sites across a wide range of U.S. jurisdictions, from Puerto Rico to Guam and many states in between.

John has been ranked as one of the leading practitioners in the Environmental area by Chambers USA. He succeeds William Jackson, who served as co-chair for 10 years.

Kelley Drye’s Environmental practice was recently named a Law360 Environmental Practice Group of the Year. The team recently represented the state of New Jersey in a landmark settlement with DuPont and related companies related to PFAS contamination. The $2 billion settlement is the largest environmental recovery for a single state in U.S. history.