Professional Experience
Lauren Grahovac Harpke focuses her practice on corporate environmental issues. Ms. Harpke’s recent experience includes:
- Working with corporate clients to address environmental concerns arising in mergers, acquisitions and other transactions, including conducting due diligence and facilitating transfer of environmental permits and licenses.
- Advising clients in environmental recordkeeping and record retention policies.
- Assisting clients in site remediation, including obtaining access to contaminated properties and negotiating payment structure.
- Experience in complex environmental insurance litigation and allocation.
- Assisting clients navigate the issues arising under the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact.
- Familiarity with climate change and greenhouse gas legislation.
- Coordinating information requests and settlement negotiations with DNR and EPA regarding citations under RCRA, EPCRA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and state counterparts.
- Investigating and resolving OSHA citations involving hazard communication, guarding accidents, asbestos, electrical safety and other violations resulting in employee injury or death.
- Advising clients of EPCRA and RCRA regulatory requirements in operational and enforcement contexts.
Education and Honors
- University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2007)
Dean’s List. Public Interest Law Foundation.
- University of Wisconsin (B.A., with honors, 2003)
Degree: International Relations with a Certificate in Environmental Studies.
Bar Admissions
Wisconsin,
2007
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 2008
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2007
U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, 2007
Professional and Civic Activities
- American Bar Association (Member, Environment, Energy, and Resources Law Section and Young Lawyers Division).
- State Bar of Wisconsin (Member).
- Milwaukee Bar Association (Member).
- Federation of Environmental Technologists (Member).
- Environmental Law Institute (Member).
- Wisconsin Manufacturers Commerce (Member).
- Sojourner Family Peace Center (Courthouse Clinic Pro Bono Coordinator and Volunteer).
- The Park People of Milwaukee County (Board Member).
- Guardianship Pro Bono Clinic (Pro Bono Volunteer).
- Legal and Medical Partnership (Pro Bono Volunteer).