Practice Expertise

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Areas of Practice

  • Air Permitting, Counseling & Enforcement ...
  • Clean Water Act Permitting, Counseling & ...
  • Commercial Transactions & Land Development
  • Emergency Planning & Response
  • Energy & Natural Resource Development
  • Environmental Law
  • Government Relations
  • Health Care Industry
  • Insurance Industry
  • Litigation
  • Municipal & Government
  • Natural Resources Industry
  • Product Stewardship
  • Public Utilities Industry
  • Site Characterization, Cleanup & Remediation
  • Waste
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Profile

Carl is the past office managing partner of the Frankfort, Kentucky office. He focuses his practice on regulatory law and government relations matters. Along with representing business and industry on environmental, natural resources, insurance and other administrative issues, he is a registered legislative agent and executive branch lobbyist.

Prior to joining the firm, Carl served as chair of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald's Government Affairs team.

Bar Admissions

    Kentucky

Court Admissions
    U.S. Supreme Court
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
    U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
    U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Education

  • University of Kentucky College of Law (J.D., 1979)
  • Transylvania University (B.A., 1976)

Areas of Practice

  • Air Permitting, Counseling & Enforcement Defense
  • Clean Water Act Permitting, Counseling & Enforcement Defense
  • Commercial Transactions & Land Development
  • Emergency Planning & Response
  • Energy & Natural Resource Development
  • Environmental Law
  • Government Relations
  • Health Care Industry
  • Insurance Industry
  • Litigation
  • Municipal & Government
  • Natural Resources Industry
  • Product Stewardship
  • Public Utilities Industry
  • Site Characterization, Cleanup & Remediation
  • Waste

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell
  • Best Lawyers© for more than 20 years
    • Environmental Law, Government Relations Practice, Litigation - Environmental (2022)
  • Super Lawyers® 


Professional Associations
  • Kentucky Association of Manufacturers, general counsel
  • Air Toxics, Advisory Panel
  • Governor's Groundwater, Advisory Committee
  • Kentucky Water Quality Standards, Review Panel
  • Risk Analysis Regulation Development, Advisory Group
  • Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund, Board member
  • Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission
    • Chairman
    • Commissioner
  • Kentucky Natural Lands Trust, Board of Directors
  • Sayre School, Board of Trustees
  • State Law Resources, Board of Directors
  • Kentucky Association of Manufacturers, Tax Committee, chair
  • American Bar Association, Dialogue on Incentives for Voluntary Compliance Programs
  • Brownfields and Voluntary Cleanup Program Focus Group between the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet and the City of Louisville
  • Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Task Force



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