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Born
Orange, California, 1958; Enlisted in U.S. Navy, 1977; Commissioned
Officer, 1982; Retired as Commander, Navy JAG Corps, 2002. Trained
to operate Navy nuclear reactors prior to earning commission.
596 flight hours as Naval Flight Officer, mainly in P-3 Orion
submarine-hunting aircraft.
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Began
practice of law in 1989; admitted Virginia Bar, 2003
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LL.M.,
Environmental Law, The George Washington University (1995)
With Highest Honors
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J.D.,
Case Western Reserve University School of Law (1989)
Summa Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, Law Review Editor
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B.S.,
Industrial and Systems Engineering, Univ. of Southern California
(1982)
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Led the Navy/U.S. Department of Justice legal team that designed
and implemented the environmental legal strategy for re-opening
in 2000 of the Navy’s 12,000 acre training facility at
Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. The strategy closed vulnerabilities
under the CWA, CAA, RCRA, CZMA, NEPA, ESA, MMPA, and NHPA, in
addition to securing the Navy’s riparian rights to the
water supply for Naval Station Roosevelt Roads.
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Key member of the Navy/U.S. Department of Justice litigation
team that persuaded four different federal courts, between 2000
and 2002, to reject twenty legal challenges to Navy operations
at the 12,000 acre Vieques training facility, resulting in uninterrupted
usage of the facility to prepare hundreds of Navy units for
duty.
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Member
of the Navy/U.S. Department of Justice team that: (1) drafted
the Environmental Impact Statement leading to decision in 1999
to home base more than 100 jet aircraft in Virginia Beach, Virginia;
and, (2) successfully defended the Navy’s decision in
the U.S. District court, Eastern District of Virginia, and the
Fourth Circuit.
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As
Environmental Counsel to the Navy On Scene Commander in Norfolk,
Virginia, provided legal advice regarding OPA 90 liabilities
associated with OHS spills.
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Personally negotiated more than $2,500,000.00 in Navy admiralty
recoveries from entities worldwide who had damaged Navy vessels
and shoreline infrastructure.
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Assisted
the U.S. Department of Justice in litigating approximately 80
admiralty cases, for and against the U.S., pending in federal
courts throughout the U.S.
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As
point man for U.S. Department of Defense, conducted legislative
outreach to the Virginia General Assembly resulting in two environmental
statutory changes.
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Judicial
Clerk to the Honorable Henry Coke Morgan, Jr., U.S. District
Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division. Numerous
trials, motion hearings, and sentencing hearings in the “rocket
docket”. Prepared legal memoranda and signature-ready
orders in a wide range of civil and criminal matters.
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Published
works: Lang, Clean Air Act Section 176 General Conformity Program,
2 The Envtl. Lawyer 353 (1996)
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Presented environmental paper and served as panelist at ABA
Annual Convention (New York City, 2000)
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Assisted
in Arnold Reitze, AIR POLLUTION LAW (1995) (noted at page v)
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Assisted
in Katz, In Search of a Fourth Amendment for the Twenty-First
Century, 65 Ind. L. J. 549 (1990) (noted at page 549)
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Lang,
Should I Stay or Should I Go: The National Guard Dances to the
Tune Called by Two Masters, 39 Case W. Res. Law Rev. 165 (1989).
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Admitted
to Virginia Supreme Court, U.S. District Court, Eastern District
of Virginia, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia,
Ohio Supreme Court
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Member,
Virginia State Bar Second District Disciplinary Committee
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Member,
Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association
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Member,
James Kent American Inn of Court
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Assistant Scoutmaster Boy Scout Troop 419, Virginia Beach, Virginia
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