[Webinar] Understanding Wild Horse Litigation with TCF's Legal Team
In this webinar, The Cloud Foundation teamed up with our outstanding lawyers Bill Eubanks and Nick Lawton from Eubanks & Associates to offer an overview of how we’ve gotten to where we are in the current WHB issue, and to answer your questions about wild horse/burro litigation. With this discussion, we aim to offer you the tools and information you need to understand the issue at a deep level and increase your effectiveness on behalf of America's wild horses & burros.
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About The Panelists
Bill Eubanks
William “Bill” Eubanks opened Eubanks & Associates, PLLC in 2019. Before that, he spent more than a decade at Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP, first as an Associate and then as a Partner. Bill has been recognized as a leading public interest environmental lawyer and has won dozens of lawsuits around the country including securing numerous victories on important issues of first impression in federal appellate and trial courts. Among other awards and distinctions, Law360 selected Bill as a 2019 Rising Star in Environmental Law which recognizes the top five environmental attorneys in the United States under 40, marking the first time a public interest lawyer received this award.
Bill's legal specialties include the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, public lands statutes (e.g., Wilderness Act, National Park Service Organic Act, National Forest Management Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act), wildlife laws (e.g., Endangered Species Act, Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act), and open government statutes (e.g., Freedom of Information Act). Bill has also spent more than a decade identifying and addressing cutting-edge environmental justice issues that disproportionately affect BIPOC and other systemically marginalized communities.
Nick Lawton
William N. “Nick” Lawton is a Senior Associate at Eubanks & Associates, PLLC. Previously, Nick was an Associate at Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP from 2015-2019. Nick's legal specialties include advocating for protection of wildlife and natural resources, environmentally sustainable energy production, and government transparency. Nick has won several major victories in federal appellate and trial courts as lead counsel or co-counsel.
Nick received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2013 along with certificates in Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Intellectual Property. During law school, Nick served as Form and Style Editor for Animal Law Review for two years. He also gained practical litigation experience through clerkships at the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice and Lewis & Clark's environmental law clinic, Earthrise Law Center. After graduation, he served as an Energy Fellow, earning an LL.M., summa cum laude, in Environmental and Natural Resources Law while also helping to found the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. At the Green Energy Institute, Nick worked to design and advocate for effective ways to promote distributed renewable energy, particularly rooftop solar power, in an effort to mitigate climate change while avoiding the negative environmental impacts of utility-scale development. Nick's publications include white papers on reducing the soft costs of distributed solar power and on modernizing building standards to require rooftop solar panels, as well as a law review article that earned a prize from the American Bar Association Public Lands section, Utah's Transfer of Public Lands Act: Demanding a Gift of Federal Lands, 16 Vt. J. Env. L. 1 (2014).