Friday, December 02, 2011 Pesticide contamination on golf course: Florida DEP position
Florida does not have statewide soil standards; however, when cleanup is required as a result of a spill or dumping of a chemical onto the ground, Soil Cleanup Target Levels(SCTLs) are used by the State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection to determine when cleanup is complete. The Central District of DEP just posted the following relating to a golf course property where adjacent residential property owners are expressing concern about the offsite migration from the golf course of the pesticide Dieldrin. (In the past, it was common construction practice to use Dieldrin as a subsurface slab treatment.)
"The DEP does not generally enforce Direct Exposure-based SCTLs when a pesticide is present as a result of proper use of a product. The Leachability-based SCTLs may be enforceable if dumping, spilling, or misapplying a pesticide can be linked to groundwater contamination.”
Wednesday, November 02, 2011 U.S. News & World Report Names RyanLaw As a U.S. and Orlando Florida “Best Law Firm” for Litigation- Environmental
November 1, 2001 – U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers®, publisher of the international business news magazine U.S. News and World Report, in its just-released annual ranking of U.S. law firms, has awarded RyanLaw its coveted “First-Tier” ranking as one of its 41 highest-ranked Litigation-Environmental law firms in the United States.
RyanLaw was one of only two law firms in Orlando, nine firms with offices located in Florida, and Forty one law firms nationally to receive First-Tier rankings for Litigation-Environmental. RyanLaw was awarded a First-Tier ranking on both the National and Orlando Metropolitan lists. RyanLaw’s “high ranking is a special distinction that signals a unique combination of excellence and breadth of expertise.” U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers® Release, Washington D.C. –November 1, 2011.
The U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” rankings provide a view of the U.S. legal profession that is unprecedented both in the range of firms represented and in the range of qualitative and quantitative data used to develop the rankings. The rigorous evaluation process included the collection of client and attorney evaluations, including peer review from leading attorneys in their practice area. The rankings incorporated nearly 4 million evaluations collected by Best Lawyers in its most recent annual survey. All of the quantitative and qualitative data was combined into an overall “Best Law Firms” score for each firm. This data was then compared to other law firms within the same metropolitan area and at the national level. The First-Tier includes those law firms that scored within a certain percentage of the highest scoring law firms across the nation. “By combining hard data with peer reviews, and client assessments, we continue to believe we are providing clients with the most thorough, accurate, and helpful rankings of law firms ever developed.” Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers.
RyanLaw is an “AV-Rated” law firm offering environmental, employment, and litigation services, and is located in the metropolitan Orlando area, serving clients across Florida.
Additional information on the firm can be found at its newly expanded website, http://ryan-law.com or (407)359-0403. Principal Rory Ryan can be reached by e-mail at rryan@ryan-law.com
For further information contact: Dustin Cole 407-830-9810
dustin@attorneysmasterclass.com
Friday, August 12, 2011 Cindy Ryan tried a case to the jury in August 2011 defending a Central Florida municipality for alleged violations under the Florida Civil Rights Act and the Florida Whistle-blower's Act.
Cindy Ryan Wins Victory for a Central Florida municipality.
Friday, August 12, 2011 Rory Ryan Presentation; "Duty to Preserve Evidence and Protect Environmental Reports"
Rory Ryan presented "Duty to Preserve Evidence and Protect Environmental Reports" and Stacy Watson May presented "Commercial Lending Update: From Lender Liability in Foreclosures to Current Market" at the Florida Bar Environmental and Land Use Law Section Annual Update in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, in August 2011. Thursday, August 11, 2011 Cindy Ryan to Present at Rollins College Leadership Academy
Cindy Brennan Ryan is presenting at Rollins College Leadership Academy Employment Law Symposium in November 2011 in Winter Park, Florida.
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