Elliott A. Milhollin
Partner

Mr. Milhollin is a member of the Firm's Environmental, Natural and Cultural Resources Practice Group, where he specializes in advancing tribal interests in the field of land use planning, water quality and environmental protection. He has experience in a variety of federal environmental and natural resources laws, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and issues involving those laws, including environmental issues in real property transactions, arbitration, appellate litigation, regulatory rulemaking, Indian law, and general environmental compliance.

Mr. Milhollin also specializes in litigation, sovereignty issues and Indian gaming. Working with attorneys from the Native American Rights Fund and the Firm, he co-authored one of the Tribal Amicus Curiae briefs that was cited by the Supreme Court in Indian Country's recent win in United States v. Lara. He works with tribes to help defend and preserve tribal sovereign rights in a number of areas. He also specializes in Indian gaming issues, with a particular focus on Class II gaming.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Milhollin practiced with the Washington, DC, office of Latham & Watkins, where he focused on environmental and natural resources law.

Mr. Milhollin has co-authored an article for the Environmental Law Institute on the public’s right to access the judicial proceedings of the World Trade Organization, Nicholas Gertler and Elliott Milhollin, Public Participation and Access to Justice in the World Trade Organization, pub’d in Environmental Law Institute, The New Public: The Globalization of Public Participation (Carl Bruch, ed. 2002) and has published a student note on the federal taxation of Superfund cleanup costs, Note, Taxation of Superfund Cleanup Costs: How the IRS Continues to Frustrate CERCLA’s Twin Policy Goals, 5 Wis. Envtl. L.J. 213, 215 (1998).

Mr. Milhollin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with high honors from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Juris Doctorate (cum laude) from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1999, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Environmental Law Journal. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

E-mail: emilhollin@hsdwdc.com

Phone: (202) 822-8282

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