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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 20:23:09+00:00

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South Carolina’s deep roots in agriculture and industry date back to its founding as one of America’s original Thirteen Colonies in the late 1600s. Tommy Lavender recognizes how that history, combined with the state’s abundant natural resources, and the regulation of them, can create complex problems.
To understand how he can help executives see through the weeds, consider his background. Tommy studied Mechanical Engineering at Clemson and after law school went to work for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control as an Environmental Engineer. A year and a half later, he was promoted to Assistant General Counsel of the state regulatory agency.
From there, he went on to work for a capital corporation where he worked the legal side of multifamily resort development projects -- issues such as land acquisition, permitting, zoning, and other entitlements.
He’s been in private practice now for over 40 years and is the Chair of Nexsen Pruet’s Environmental, Administrative and Regulatory Law Group. In that role, he leads and coordinates attorney teams to ensure that the firm’s business and professional clients receive high quality legal services.
Court of Appeals of South Carolina. GLASSCOCK COMPANY, INC., Waste Industries, Inc. and Wilson MacEwen, Appellants, v. SUMTER COUNTY, Frank Williams, Jr., Naomi Sanders, Carol Burr, Charles Edens, Louis Fleming, James Campbell, Rudy Singleton (members of the County Council) and Waste Management, Inc., Respondents, 361 S.C. 483, 604 S.E.2d (Ct. App. 2004).
Supreme Court of South Carolina. SOUTHEAST RESOURCE RECOVERY, INC., Appellant, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, Involved Citizens of the Helena Community, Rev. Nura Ray Matthews, Chairman, Little Beaver Dam Baptist Church, John L. Hunter, Paul Herbert, Eugene Maybin, Jr., John and Jessie Reeder, Lillie May Washington, William W. Parr, Sr., Eliza M. Parr and Bill Parr, Jr., Respondents, 397 S.C. 217, 723 S.E.2d 255 (Ct. App. 2012).
Northeast Sanitary Landfill, Inc., and Container Corp. of Columbia v. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, 843 F. Supp. 100 (D.S.C. 1992).
York County v. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and C&D Management Company, LLC, 397 S.C. 217, S.E.2d 255 (Ct. App. 2012).
Town of Arcadia Lakes, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and Roper Pond, LLC, 404 S.C. 515, 745 S.E.2d 385 (Ct. App. 2013).
These presentations and materials are from the Nexsen Pruet Economic Development Seminar held on June 21, 2013, "Legislative Update".
Nexsen Pruet attorneys Ed Menzie, Tommy Lavender and Joan Hartley are contributing authors for the newly published book.
On June 6, 2012 South Carolina’s General Assembly ratified and Governor Nikki Halley signed into law a bill that repeals a 2011 ruling from the State Supreme Court. In Georgetown County League of Women Voters v. Smith Land Co., 393 S.C. 350 (2011), the court ruled that private citizens are allowed to file lawsuits to enforce the Pollution Control Act. That ruling was a big concern for businesses that anticipated a spate of new, perhaps frivolous, lawsuits.
The people of South Carolina now have certainty about the availability of 2012 Nationwide Permits (“NWPs”). On April 23, 2012, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (“DHEC”) issued its 401 Water Quality Certification and Certification of Consistency with the South Carolina Coastal Zone Management Act for each of the Corps of Engineers’ 2012 Nationwide Permits. Those became effective March 19, 2012.
In cases of first and second impression, federal district courts in South Carolina and California have now ruled on the bona fide prospective purchase (“BFPP”) defense following its enactment in 2002 and EPA’s subsequent “all appropriate inquiries” (“AAI”) implementing regulations in 2006.
"Updates on Current Environmental Issues: Self-Disclosure, Energy Reforms in Mexico, and Traps," Mackrell International Webinar, October 29, 2015.
"Doing the Deal: Attracting Developer & Investors to Muncipal Brownfield Projects" - NBA, September 2008.
"View from the Dark Side" - SCAARLA, September 2008.
When he’s not at the firm or at home with his nose in a file, Tommy likes to travel with his wife, eat good food, drink good wine, and give Gamecock fans grief every chance he gets.

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