E.A. Skip Kazmarek Partner Kazmarek, Geiger & Laseter LLP One Securities Center 3490 Piedmont Road NE, Suite 350 Atlanta, GA 30305 Phone: 404-812-0840 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Download vCard

Skip Kazmarek´s practice spans the full breadth of environmental law, including regulatory, transactional and litigation. He has published over 60 articles and presentations and is an adjunct professor of environmental law at Georgia State University School of Law.

Skip has a unique perspective in that he has a technical background, with his undergraduate work in Biology and graduate school in Environmental Engineering Systems, both at UCLA. While in graduate school, Skip performed research in air pollution control and was involved in the testing of the first automobile in the U.S. powered by liquid hydrogen. He was also a teaching assistant and taught undergraduate-level courses in systems engineering principles. After graduate school, where he was named "Outstanding Masters Candidate" in 1977, he worked in the Environmental Engineering section of a large, national forestry corporation where he was responsible for the company's compliance with laws regulating chemical substances.

Over the course of nearly 30 years in the environmental area, Skip has been involved in nearly every major facet of environmental law. He has advised clients on regulatory compliance in areas of water and air pollution, wetlands, hazardous wastes, community right to know, and employee safety. In the transactional area, he has handled numerous matters involving contaminated property on behalf of sellers, purchasers, and lenders; he has directed the environmental components of a wide variety of corporate mergers, acquisitions, and liability transfers; and he has been on the leading edge of the latest forms of brownfields transactions. Lately, a large share of Skip's practice has been focused on environmental litigation, including toxic tort defense, cost recovery actions, and defense and prosecution of statutory claims.

Skip was recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer in Atlanta Magazine from 2004 through 2010 and was also named one of America´s Leading Business Lawyers in the 2003 through 2010 editions of Chambers USA. Most recently, Skip was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2005 through 2010 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Environmental Law.