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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices

Baker Botts L.L.P.
700 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001-5692
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Kent Mayo

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Work Department

Litigation

Position

Partner

Career

Kent Mayo handles a wide variety of environmental matters, with a focus on environmental litigation and enforcement defense and strategic regulatory compliance. He represents clients in toxic tort and class action litigation arising from environmental issues. His litigation work also includes serving as lead counsel in multiple enforcement actions brought by the United States, states and citizen groups under the Clean Air Act and other statutory programs.

In the regulatory sphere, Kent counsels clients on rulemakings and regulatory compliance and works with clients to develop broad strategies for working with regulators. He assists clients in compliance investigations and audits addressing multiple statutory schemes, including the Clean Air Act, RCRA (coal ash) and the SDWA. Kent also works with clients to prepare for and respond to environmental crisis events, including working with responders and regulators such as EPA, Chemical Safety Board and state agencies to protect the client’s interests.

Kent previously worked as a trial lawyer in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he led teams in complex environmental litigation, settlement negotiations and mediations across a broad range of civil environmental actions, including cases involving Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act violations and cases arising under CERCLA’s remedial, cost recovery and natural resource damages provisions.

Memberships

District of Columbia Bar

State Bar of Colorado

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

United States District Court for the District of Columbia

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

American Bar Association, Environment, Energy and Resources Section

Education

J.D., Washington University School of Law 1995
Order of the Coif
Editor in Chief, Washington University Law Quarterly

A.B., Political Science, Duke University 1990
cum laude

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort

Leveraging the expertise of litigators and environment specialists primarily based out of its Houston headquarters, as well as from Washington DC, Baker Botts L.L.P. is particularly accomplished at representing energy and utilities clients in toxic tort issues arising in the course of their business. The scope of this work is broad and includes consolidated private litigation alleging personal injury and property damage as a result of groundwater and soil contamination, as well as regularly responding to major high-profile environmental incidents –  where the firm is able to provide a tailored crisis response service aimed at minimizing reputational damage and to efficiently respond to attendant regulatory investigations, as well as resulting litigation. In Houston, Russell Lewis excels in handling multi-faceted mandates and is often front-and-centre in assisting major manufacturing and energy companies respond in the aftermath of major environmental incidents; he continues to represent Intercontinental Terminals Company in crisis response, governmental enforcement defense, and multiple class actions and private party lawsuits arising out of Deer Park terminal fire. As well as providing regulatory compliance advice, Washington DC-based partner Kent Mayo also regularly handles class action litigation arising from environmental issues, as well as responding to governmental enforcement actions – an area that he is able to provide particular insight as a result of his previous tenure as a trial lawyer at the Environmental Enforcement section of the DOJ. Joshua Frank and Ty Buthod co-head the team alongside Mayo from Washington DC and Houston, respectively.

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