DETROIT – Butzel Long senior attorney Jack D. Shumate
is one of 23 attorneys from across the United States and the only Michigan lawyer who have founded the American College of Environmental Lawyers. The College will recognize the achievements of outstanding environmental attorneys and focus their efforts to enhance the practice of environmental law.
The founders of the College, including Shumate, are all environmental attorneys who are listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Shumate specializes in environmental, natural resources, insurance coverage matters and appellate law. He is the firm’s Senior Environmental attorney. .
Shumate has been engaged in all aspects of environmental law since 1975. Currently, his environmental practice is focused on investigation and
cleanup of Superfund sites throughout the country, pre-acquisition property investigations, environmental aspects of major real estate and corporate transactions, Brownfield redevelopment and environmental litigation.
He has a broad background in real estate and corporate transactions and related litigation and legislative relations. Prior to joining Butzel Long, he worked in the Corporate Legal Department of Consumers Power Company. His duties in that position included licensing, investigation, and closure and re-use of the Company’s coal ash landfills, including resolving heavy metals issues. He has represented subsidiaries engaged in exploration and development of oil, natural gas, and uranium. He also has served as a legal and legislative advisor to the Governor of Ohio.
Shumate has a B.S. Degree in chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and obtained his J.D. Degree in 1962 from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law of Northern Kentucky University. He is a resident of Grosse Pointe Park.
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