Snell & Wilmer Partner Lucas Narducci Receives the 2015 Michael J Brophy Distinguished Service Award

PHOENIX - May 13, 2015 - PRLog -- Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce that Phoenix partner Lucas J. Narducci (http://www.swlaw.com/attorneys/lucas_narducci) was recently awarded with the Michael J. Brophy Distinguished Service Award at the 2015 annual banquet for the State Bar of Arizona’s Environmental and Natural Resource Law Section (ENRLS).

The Michael J. Brophy Distinguished Service Award is awarded at the discretion of the ENRLS executive council of the section to a member of ENRLS who exemplifies the qualities of commitment of service to the environmental and natural resources law profession and the community that was valued by Michael Brophy, a distinguished lawyer, family man and friend. The Award is presented to a lawyer who, like Brophy, approaches personal and professional demands with honesty, integrity, courage, grace, dignity, respect, wit and compassion --- taking the long view, and keeping in mind the community of which we are all a part. The Award was created to recognize a lawyer who thinks creatively about clients’ problems and solutions, teaches and mentors younger lawyers, and strives to balance the demands of their professional and personal life.

Narduccihas more than 27 years of experience in environmental and natural resources law. He regularly guides clients through administrative hearings, litigation and other forms of dispute resolution, striving to protect their assets and keep their business goals in mind. He has extensive experience in acquisitions, divestments, expansions, mergers, ventures, operational compliance, employee workspace safety, workplace and third-party toxic exposures, audits, risk reductions and control methods. He also advises on policy and legislative developments that affect or could impact his clients and their businesses. He has been lead counsel in the divestment, acquisition, operation, curtailment, reclamation and closure of several copper, gold, coal and uranium mines. Narducci’s practice has taken him across the United States, as well as to Canada, Mexico and several countries in South America. He participates in many significant business, industry and manufacturing associations in order to advance the interests of those associations and his clients, and to influence rule-making, regulatory, policy and legislative processes. He earned his J.D. from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.

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