Of Counsel, Hopping Green & Sams, TallahasseeMr. Blalock practices primarily in the environmental and natural resources law area assisting clients in navigating the regulatory and legislative arenas. He also represents clients in obtaining environmental permits from federal, state, and local agencies. Prior to joining the firm in 2015, he worked as the policy chief for the Florida House of Representatives’ Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee. Hopping Green & Sams is a statewide firm based in Tallahassee with over 50 attorneys specializing in all aspects of land use and environmental law.

Mark Ellard is a senior principal engineer based in Geosyntec’s Orlando, Florida, office. He has more than 27 years of Florida experience in water resources and environmental engineering. His water resources expertise includes diverse stormwater management and water quality assessment projects, including watershed management, master planning, floodplain management, pollutant load assessment, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and Total Maximum Daily Loads regulatory compliance, environment resource permitting, hydrologic and hydraulic and groundwater flow modeling, and water quality monitoring. He has extensive experience in the application of low impact development (LID) and green infrastructure (GI) practices for urban stormwater management.

Shareholder, Lewis Longman & Walker, P.A., JacksonvilleMr. Flowers represents the public and private sectors in the areas of environmental, land use and governmental law. He provides general and special counsel representation to counties, municipalities, and special districts. Mr. Flowers’ clients include private land owners and developers as well as entities of government. He represents these clients before local, state and federal agencies and courts on matters related to: wetland and storm water permitting, sovereign submerged lands, water supply, the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act.

Senior Counsel, Lewis Longman & Walker, P.A., Tampa BayMs. Getzoff’s practice focuses on state and federal environmental regulatory matters for coastal projects, land development, wetlands and water facilities. She has over 30 years of experience in environmental and administrative law and policy in both the private and public sectors. From 1999-2011, Ms. Getzoff served as the Southwest District director for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. As the director of a 12-county regulatory office based in Tampa, she managed permitting and compliance for some of the most complicated and innovative projects in Florida during that time, including the then-largest seawater desalination plant in the United States, a 15 billion gallon water supply reservoir and the Gulfstream Natural Gas Interstate pipeline.

Shareholder, Lewis Longman & Walker, P.A., West Palm BeachMr. Malefatto has been practicing environmental and land use law in Florida for over 30 years. He began his legal career as an assistant general counsel with the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation (now the Department of Environmental Protection), and has been in private practice since 1983. For both public and private sector clients,Mr. Malefatto handles matters ranging from coastal and wetland permitting, to site contamination cleanups and brownfield redevelopment to defense of environmental enforcement actions. He holds an AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Senior Practice Expert Attorney with South Florida Water Management DistrictMs. Martin is an expert in environmental resource permit issues and administrative law. She graduated from the University of Florida College of Law, with honors. She received her Bachelors of Science degree from Florida Atlantic University. Ms. Martin is board certified in State and Federal Government and Administrative Practice. She is also accredited by the Green Building Certification Institute as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Professional. She is a Supreme Court certified mediator.

Shareholder with Hopping Green & Sams in TallahasseeMr. Olsen has over 20 years of experience and represents clients all over Florida, assisting water utilities, landowners, electric power entities, mining companies, agricultural operations and others in obtaining and protecting water rights, and planning for adequate water to support present and future operations. Mr. Olsen also helps regulated industries to obtain state and federal permits needed to impact wetlands and mitigate for those wetland impacts. He was formerly an attorney with the St. Johns River Water Management District. Mr. Olsen is a Florida Bar boards certified specialist in State and Federal Government and Administrative Practice.

Christine Senne is of counsel to Manson Bolves Donaldson Varn, PA, and president of Senne Law Firm, PA. She practices environmental and water resources law throughout Florida. Ms. Senne received her law degree from the Florida State University College of Law and her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College. She is a member of The Florida Bar’s Environmental and Land Use Section, the American Water Resources Association’s Florida Section, and Highlands County, Florida’s, Natural Resources Advisory Committee. She resides in Lake Placid, Florida.