Diane M.

Diane is a shareholder on the Environmental and Energy Practice Group in the Milwaukee office. Her practice has focused on Environmental law issues for nearly two decades. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin and has also served as the co-chair for the Environmental Section of the Milwaukee Bar Association.

Throughout her career Diane has actively represented clients in brownfield redevelopment projects, superfund sites, hazardous waste site closure, site remediations and permitting and enforcement matters arising under all major environmental programs including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substances Control Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. She also has a broad range of experience negotiating insurance coverage for environmental liabilities in transactional contexts and in connection with the operation of on-going businesses. In addition, she has extensive experience conducting due diligence inquiries involving acquisition and sale transactions on behalf of buyers, sellers and lenders involving not only Wisconsin-based facilities, but also national and international facilities. Her experience encompasses a wide range of industries, such as foundries, metal plating and casting, anodizing, material fabrication, injection molding, extruding, chemical manufacturing, and the paper and food industries and numerous others. She has been very active in brownfield redevelopment projects and has co-authored a book entitled, A Wisconsin Brownfield Primer, a 250-page summary of environmental laws in Wisconsin that impact the redevelopment of contaminated property (published by the University of Wisconsin Law School.)