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Environmental

Oct. 20, 1999

Boom Times

SEATTLE - Across the country, legal pundits are already writing the obituary for the practice of environmental law. Superfund work is over, they say, because there's really nothing left to clean up. Federal and state regulatory regimes have hit middle age, dribbling forth work that is tired and routine, easily handled by affordable nonlawyer environmental consultants. Innovative and sweeping environmental legislation has gone the way of wooden tennis rackets, and droves of young lawyers are

By Ashby Jones
Special to the Daily Journal
        SEATTLE - Across the country, legal pundits are already writing the obituary for the practice of environmental law.
        Superfund work is over, they say, because there's really nothing left to clean up. Federal and state regulatory regimes have hit middl...

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