People on the Move

Norman (Norm) Dupont has joined Aleshire & Wynder, LLP in Westlake Village, California, as counsel. He formerly was a partner with Ring Bender LLP in Newport Beach, California. Dupont, with more than four decades of trial and appellate representation, focuses on environmental and municipal legal matters. Recent trials include a nine-month bench trial in Orange County Superior Court (California) as to groundwater contamination claims. Long active in the Section, he is currently the Section advisor on Constitutional Law matters.

Bergin Fisniku has been promoted to director at the Elliott Davis accounting and business consulting firm in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the firm’s Sustainability and ESG Consulting Practice Leader and its National Tax Practice Leader. Fisniku is a member of the Section and focuses on environmental, social and governance issues, including clean energy investment and incentives in tax.

Emily Sanford Fisher has joined the Smart Electric Power Alliance as chief strategy officer, in its Washington, D.C., headquarters. She was formerly executive vice president, Clean Energy, and general counsel at the Edison Electric Institute. Fisher is a member of the Section’s Council and its liaison to Group C.

Steven Hall has been appointed executive director of the Citrus Research and Field Trials Foundation in Lake Alfred, Florida. He was formerly the assistant deputy commissioner and general counsel at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Tallahassee, Florida. Hall has been a member of the Section for over a decade. 

Emily Mott has joined the firm of BakerHostetler as counsel in Houston, Texas. Formerly with Baker Botts, Mott specializes in catastrophic accident response, safety, and environmental law. As a member of BakerHostetler’s Catastrophic Accident Response team, Mott has extensive crisis management and response experience across the oil and gas, energy, chemical, manufacturing, retail, and transportation industries. She provides immediate support and counsel in response to major accidents, serious injuries, or fatalities, including performing on-site work, managing regulatory and legal obligations, performing internal investigations, managing agency inspections (such as those performed by OSHA, EPA, and CSB), and defending against resulting enforcement and litigation. Mott also regularly counsels companies on various environmental, safety, and compliance topics, such as OSHA’s process safety management (PSM) standard and EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP).

Olivia Paradis has joined National Grid as lead project manager in the Major Permits group in Waltham, Massachusetts. She was formerly a senior scientist at Exponent in the Earth and Environmental Sciences practice. Paradis is programs vice chair of the Section’s Nuclear Law Committee and participates in the Section’s Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts, Oil and Gas, and Superfund and Cost Recovery Committees.

Edward (Ed) Roggenkamp has joined the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He was formerly a partner with Nossaman LLP, also in Washington, D.C. Roggenkamp will have an active role in the energy transition, working on NEPA and NHPA reviews for clean energy and infrastructure projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.

James L. (Jay) Simpson has joined Bronson AI, LLC, a startup company based in Puerto Rico, as a senior attorney working with artificial intelligence developers to litigate PFAS cases. He is a former assistant counsel with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and an Assistant Regional Counsel with USEPA Region 2. Simpson also is co-editor-in-chief of The New York Environmental Lawyer, published by the Environmental and Energy Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.