Timothy K Webster

TIM WEBSTER is co-leader of the firm’s Environmental, Health, and Safety practice. He joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office from the U.S. Department of Justice where he served as a Trial Attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Section. His practice includes both civil and criminal environmental enforcement defense, as well as challenges to government actions, internal investigations, project defense, regulatory advocacy, and compliance counseling. Tim has handled a wide variety of civil and criminal cases under statutes such as the Clean Air Act (including stationary sources, mobile sources, and the Risk Management Program), the Clean Water Act (including oil spills and permit violations), CERCLA (including cost recovery, contribution, and release reporting), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (misapplication and misbranding), as well as “toxic tort” class actions for personal injury and property damage and other matters.

Tim also served as the 44th President of the District of Columbia Bar, a position he held while remaining a partner at the firm. This “unified” bar is the mandatory licensing authority for all District of Columbia lawyers and has over 100,000 members and about 150 employees. He also led the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center, an affiliated 501(c)(3) organization that recruits, trains, and mobilizes volunteer attorneys to take pro bono cases serving individuals living in poverty. Tim remains active with the D.C. Bar and the Pro Bono Center.