Kristin is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and chair of the environmental group.  Her practice is results-oriented and focuses on environmental compliance and counseling, enforcement defense and order negotiation, environmental audits, permitting issues and Brownfield redevelopment.  She counsels clients with their due diligence in business and commercial real estate transactions and assists with contracting provisions related to each.  Kristin has worked extensively in the areas of solid and hazardous wastes, petroleum underground storage tanks, NPDES permits, wetlands and environmental investigation/remediation.

She practices before both administrative bodies and the courts.

Career highlights include:

  • Has assisted many dozens of sites navigate through Ohio’s Voluntary Action Program, including sites that have been neglected and vacant for decades
  • Assisted permitting Ohio’s first non-hazardous waste Class 1 injection well
  • Wetland permitting for some of Ohio’s largest economic development projects
  • Acting as “special counsel” for a collegiate university client related to Ohio EPA negotiations and purchase/sale of Brownfields sites

Kristin is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Columbus Bar Association and The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law National Council.

Kristin has spoken on many topics, including multimedia audits, environmental audit privileges, environmental issues related to real estate transactions, storm water regulations, underground storage tanks and environmental issues related to Ohio shale fracking.

Kristin received her J.D. with honors from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and her B.S.B.A. cum laude from The Ohio State University.

Education

The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, J.D., 1989, with Honors

The Ohio State University, B.S.B.A., cum laude, 1986

Bar & Court Admissions

  • Ohio
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
  • Admitted to practice law only in the states listed above.
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