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Kristin Holloway Jones

Associate


Kristin Holloway Jones, an associate with the firm, focuses her practice on environmental enforcement and complex environmental and toxic tort litigation, including federal and state enforcement actions, private party litigation and ADR, as well as internal compliance investigations stemming from enforcement actions. As a member of the firm’s Climate Change and Carbon Management Team, Kristin also advises clients on a range of carbon management issues, with a particular focus on the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) regulations in the United States and Canada, as well as the development and implementation of greenhouse gas emission regulatory schemes in the United States and abroad. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including BNA Environment Reporter, BNA Expert Evidence Report, Mealey’s Emerging Toxic Torts, Point Carbon and ABA publications.

Ms. Jones has represented clients in a variety of civil and criminal environmental litigation and toxic tort litigation matters in both federal and state courts, including courts in Georgia, Alabama, California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia.

Representative Experience

  • Advising several clients on potential CCS regulatory schemes in the United States and Canada, at both the federal and state/provincial levels.
  • Negotiated dismissal of three of four threatened claims in pre-enforcement action under CERCLA and EPCRA, as well as penalty less than 20% of potential statutory amount.
  • In resolving enforcement action alleging several dozen violations of TSCA, negotiated penalty less than half that originally sought.
  • Served as second chair in the defense of a $15.5 million CERCLA cost recovery claim at a former fertilizer manufacturing site involving statute of limitations, useful product, and NCP consistency issues, and negotiated settlement of claim.
  • Negotiated pre-litigation settlement of CERCLA cost recovery claims against leading world manufacturer of appliances and cleaning equipment.
  • Representing client in a 1200+ plaintiff case and related 30,000-member federal putative class action involving alleged toxic exposures in the mining industry.
  • On behalf of major worldwide transportation and logistics company, defended lawsuit and obtained successful settlement of claims against a jet fuel vendor related to a major spill in California.


Publications
September 21, 2007
"Climate Change: The Commercial Deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology," Environment Reporter, Vol. 38, No. 37, BNA, September 21, 2007.
March 2007
"Discovery Torts: Coming Soon to a Case Near You," BNA Publications (March 2007).

Kristin Holloway Jones

One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
Phone: 404-881-7956
Fax: 404-253-8678

Education

  • University of Georgia
    (J.D., 2001)
  • University of Georgia
    (B.A., 1998)

Admitted to Practice

  • Georgia