Co-Managing Member with Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C. in New OrleansMr. Garner is a trial lawyer specializing in commercial and complex litigation. He has been lead counsel in cases in New Mexico, California, West Virginia, Kansas, Arizona, Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, involving complex and class action litigation ranging from asbestos exposure, benzene exposure, and noise pollution to commercial, banking, bankruptcy and financial litigation. He serves as regional counsel for several companies. Mr. Garner is a graduate of Tulane University and Tulane Law School where he received his B.S.E. degree, summa cum laude, and his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, respectively.

Andrew K. Jacoby is the owner of the Law Office of Andrew Jacoby, LLC in New Orleans. He has spent the last ten years working with people and communities impacted by environmental and public health threats, including oilfield contamination, leaking gas station storage tanks, and hazardous contamination from dry cleaners. His practice also includes lawsuits to enforce the public records requests to state agencies, and fights to require local governments to follow their own laws with respect to zoning and land use issues. Mr. Jacoby is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Tulane Law School.

Special Counsel with Jones Walker LLP in Lafayette and Baton RougeMr. Prochaska’s practice focuses on environmental law, including regulatory issues involving permitting and compliance, transactions, and environmental litigation. Prior to joining Jones Walker, Mr. Prochaska spent six years as an attorney with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) with the last two as Special Counsel to the assistant secretary of the Office of Environmental Services. In this role, he represented LDEQ in dealings with permit applicants and consultants from the initial pre-permit meetings and through other stages of the application review process, decisions, and defense of judicial challenges to LDEQ permit decisions. Mr. Prochaska frequently attended public hearings related to draft permits and reviewed Environmental Assessment Statements and associated “IT Questions.” He worked with LDEQ permit writers and legal staff in drafting Responses to Comments (RTCs) and Basis For Decisions (BFDs) in connection with permits for both “greenfield” projects and major modifications and expansions of existing facilities.

Rebekka C. Veith is an attorney in Fishman Haygood, LLP’s, Litigation Section. Her background is in environmental defense, and in that role, she has worked closely with experts analyzing remediation claims and she has experience deposing and cross-examining environmental expert witnesses. She is currently involved in prosecuting multiple fraudulent transaction cases and assists in advising the Orleans Parish School Board on a variety of legal issues. Before joining the firm, Ms. Veith was an associate at a local defense firm from 2015 to 2018, where her practice was focused on environmental litigation, complex commercial arbitration, and administrative law.

Shareholder with Baker Donelson, PC in New OrleansMr. Weidlich concentrates his practice in energy, insurance and commercial litigation. His clients range from oil and gas operators, oil field service companies and pipeline companies to national transporters and international insurance underwriters. His litigation experience has covered numerous aspects of the oil and gas industry, including personal injury and products liability, blowouts and down-hole well damage, pipeline expropriation proceedings, well site access, and environmental and toxic-tort claims as well as royalty, title and mineral lease disputes. Mr. Weidlich also has experience representing insurance companies in litigation addressing serious personal injury, coverage disputes, property claims and subrogation as well as commercial general liability. Mr. Weidlich’s pro bono work includes adoption, criminaland construction matters. While attending law school, Mr. Weidlich also served as a law clerk for the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Weidlich is a graduate of the University of Georgia andof Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.