Lewis Sutherland > Vinson & Elkins LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile

Lewis Sutherland

713.758.2367 lsutherland@velaw.com

Work Department

Environmental & Natural Resources

Position

Partner

Career

Lewis has been practicing environmental law since 1993, and has a broad range of environmental law experience encompassing litigation, business transactions, and client counseling. His litigation practice includes toxic tort, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and a multitude of other statutory and common law claims in both state and federal courts. Lewis’ litigation practice also encompasses a broad range of class action and complex litigation experience arising from toxic tort, products liability, insurance, consumer protection, and other types of actions. He has substantial experience addressing complex scientific and engineering issues in the litigation context, and has worked with nationally recognized scientific experts in a number of different fields to address failure analysis investigations and to develop related expert testimony.

Lewis’ business transactions and client counseling practice focuses on a wide variety of environmental matters that arise in business transactions, including environmental due diligence, negotiating and drafting environmental risk and liability allocation provisions in contracts, and resolution of related disputes.