Biography: Environment

Timothy K Webster joined Sidley's Washington, DC, office from the US Department of Justice, where he served as a trial attorney in the environmental enforcement section. His practice includes both civil and criminal environmental matters, including challenges to government action and defense of enforcement matters, as well as regulatory advocacy and related compliance counselling. Mr Webster has been involved in a variety of cases under the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), as well as 'toxic tort' litigation. Finally, Mr Webster also advises clients on food and drug-related matters where environmental issues are implicated – for example, under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

In addition, Mr Webster served as general counsel of the District of Columbia Bar from 2004 to 2010, advising the Bar on business matters and defending the Bar and its employees in litigation. This 'unified' bar is the mandatory licensing authority for all District of Columbia lawyers and has over 90,000 members.

While at the University of Virginia School of Law, Mr Webster served as editor-in-chief of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal. After graduating, he clerked for the Hon John P Wiese in the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington, DC. At the DoJ, Mr Webster litigated complex civil enforcement cases brought under a variety of federal environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act, CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, the Oil Pollution Act, among others.

Mr Webster received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991 and his BA from Carleton College in 1986. He is admitted in the District of Columbia and Virginia.