Michael S. McMahon

• Background
  • Mike has practiced in almost every area of environmental law over the past 24 years
  • Mike prefers to concentrate on securing permanent solutions to environmental law problems
• Areas of Experience and Focus
  • Clean Air Act
  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
  • Environmental Management Systems and Auditing
  • Environmental Compliance Counseling and Permitting
  • Enforcement actions; transportation of hazardous materials
  • Environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions
  • Complex air work and indemnity negotiation with predecessor operator at manufacturing facility in Ohio
  • Negotiating Title V permits for facilities involved in coatings, batch processing, continuous processing and chemical manufacturing
  • Defending facilities involved in air permit enforcement actions brought by US EPA/Ohio EPA
  • Advising facilities confronting RACT/BACT/LEAR requirements
• Achievements/Honors
  • Nationally recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2010
  • Listed as “SuperLawyer” 2009 by Law & Politics
  • Named by Chambers & Partners as a leading practitioner in Environmental Law in Ohio, 2004-2010
  • Obtained a favorable opinion in a RCRA citizen suit case resulting in a limitation of such causes of action
• Professional Involvement
  • Served as Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Cleveland Bar Association
  • Chaired the Ohio State Bar Association Environmental Law Committee annual seminar
• Publications and Presentations
  • "Environmental Risk Update: What's Coming But Not Here Yet", Risk and Insurance Management Society, November 2009
  • "Environmentally Friendly Development, Design and Construction and the Risks Therein", Half Moon Seminars, July 2009
  • "Corporate Infrastructure Requirements: Risk, Liability and Transparency", The Conference Board, January 2009
  • Co-Author (with Greg DeGulis) of “Old Fashioned Partnership—Cutting-Edge Law,” Founding A Law Firm (2008 Thomson/Aspatore)
  • “Sustainable Risk Management,” Northeast Ohio Association of Corporate Counsel, January 2008
  • “Impact of Climate Change on Environmental Management Systems”, presented to the Northern Ohio Chapter of Air & Waste Management Association, October 2006
  • Co-Author (with James Friedman) of The Silent Alliance (Regnery Gateway), an analysis of acid rain and electricity import issues
  • “Basic Environmental Statutes in a Nutshell”
  • “Things Not to Say to an Inspector”
  • Co-Author: “Ohio Adopts a Model Law to Promote Voluntary Cleanup of Contaminated Property,” Journal of Environmental Permitting, Spring 1995.
  • “Does the Sixth Circuit Have a New Standard for Its Review of the EPAs Use of Air Quality Monitoring?” 18 Toledo Law Review 569.
• Education
  • John Carroll University, BA History, magna cum laude, 1978
  • Columbia University School of Law, JD, 1981
• Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • State of Ohio
  • U. S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
  • Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals