Profile: David P Hackett

Environment

Biography: Environment

Mr Hackett is the North American managing partner of Baker & McKenzie. His practice concentrates on the representation of multinationals in US and international environmental matters. He has litigated a number of major US civil and criminal environmental cases. He has assisted numerous multinational companies with environmental issues in over 50 countries, as well as multiple matters relating to international environmental treaties and multilateral lenders. Mr Hackett also regularly assists companies and financial institutions with environmental issues in US and multi-country transactions.

Mr Hackett has considerable experience managing diverse international environmental legal projects, namely, air, water, solid and hazardous waste, toxic substances and underground storage tank matters. He has extensive experience in counseling, negotiation and litigation on behalf of multinational clients regarding state, federal and foreign civil and criminal environmental matters.

Mr Hackett is the author of multiple articles published in The Environmental Corporate Counsel Report; The Environmental Counselor; American Bar Association Journal; Yearbook on International Environmental Law; The American University Journal of International Law and Policy; Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law: The Year in Review; European Economic Community; Product Liability Rules and Environmental Policy; Chemical and Radiation Waste Litigation Reporter; The Environmental Forum; and The Natural Resources Lawyer.

Mr Hackett is a member of the Business Law, International Law and Environment and Natural Resource sections of the American Bar Association. He is past chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on International Environmental Law.

He was awarded his BA from Haverford College in 1976 and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. He was admitted to practice law in Illinois in 1990, and Washington, DC in 1981.