Full Name
Jeff Civins
Job Title
Senior Counsel
Company
Haynes & Boone
Speaker Bio
Jeff Civins is senior counsel in the Austin office of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and has practiced all aspects of environmental law since 1975, assisting clients in compliance matters, transactions, and litigation. As an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, Jeff taught a seminar on Environmental Law Concerns in Business in spring of 1987 and has been teaching a seminar on Environmental Litigation each spring since 1992. Jeff is a member of the Advisory Board of UT’s Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center and of PracticalESG.com. He also is a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers and of the American, Texas, and Austin Bar Foundations.
Jeff is the organizer and co-editor of this treatise, the originator of the Thomas Reuters annual compilation of Texas Environmental Laws, a former chair of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, standing chair of the section’s Annual Texas Environmental Superconference, and for the past eight years, chair of the EarthX Law Advisory Council.
Now entering his sixth decade of practice, Jeff Civins continues to enjoy helping clients find pragmatic solutions to tough problems involving all aspects of environmental law, including counseling them on regulatory issues, helping them manage environmental risks in business transactions, and advocating on their behalf before agencies and courts. Having begun his professional career as a scientist and teacher, Jeff loves the challenge of making difficult things easy to understand, from groundwater hydrology to air dispersion modeling to toxicology. He�s also passionate about understanding the ins and outs of his clients� businesses�from oil and gas exploration and development, power plants, refineries, chemical plants, and other manufacturing facilities, to real estate sales, leasing, development, and financing.
Jeff received a B.A. in chemistry from Brandeis University, an M.S. in chemistry from Penn State, and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Prior to law school, Jeff taught science in public and private schools in New York City.
Jeff is the organizer and co-editor of this treatise, the originator of the Thomas Reuters annual compilation of Texas Environmental Laws, a former chair of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, standing chair of the section’s Annual Texas Environmental Superconference, and for the past eight years, chair of the EarthX Law Advisory Council.
Now entering his sixth decade of practice, Jeff Civins continues to enjoy helping clients find pragmatic solutions to tough problems involving all aspects of environmental law, including counseling them on regulatory issues, helping them manage environmental risks in business transactions, and advocating on their behalf before agencies and courts. Having begun his professional career as a scientist and teacher, Jeff loves the challenge of making difficult things easy to understand, from groundwater hydrology to air dispersion modeling to toxicology. He�s also passionate about understanding the ins and outs of his clients� businesses�from oil and gas exploration and development, power plants, refineries, chemical plants, and other manufacturing facilities, to real estate sales, leasing, development, and financing.
Jeff received a B.A. in chemistry from Brandeis University, an M.S. in chemistry from Penn State, and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Prior to law school, Jeff taught science in public and private schools in New York City.
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