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PLC Environment is always our first point of call for information on current environmental law issues. We have found PLC's practice notes and weekly update service to be particularly helpful.
Rebecca Carriage, Associate
Mills & Reeve LLP
What we do
We provide a range of know-how materials about environmental law for lawyers and others doing business in the UK, including:
- Current awareness
Practical legal updates delivered to subscribers by e-mail and published on our website. - Practice notes
Clear explanations of key aspects of environmental law and policy. These are continually updated to reflect any change in law or practice. - Standard documents
A bank of standard documents (including clauses) for use in commercial transactions. These are continually updated to reflect any change in law or practice. - Checklists
Practical step-by-step guides to environmental issues that arise in the context of commercial transactions. These are continually updated to reflect any change in law or practice. - Multi-jurisdictional guides
Concise summaries of environmental law in a number of other jurisdictions.
What we cover
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Who we are
| Sara Feijao was called to the Bar in 1996 and then moved to the environment groups at Travers Smith Braithwaite and Herbert Smith. She also worked for several years for the Department of Environment (DETR and Defra), during which time she was seconded to the European Commission to assist with the drafting of the Environmental Liability Directive. She is a member of the UK Environmental Law Association. Sara joined PLC in October 2005 to head up PLC Environment. |
| Peter Harvey qualified at Burges Salmon in 1993 and since then has been involved in environmental issues, particularly litigation. He joins from Veale Wasbrough, where he led the environment and regulatory team. Peter has extensive experience advising on environmental issues for commercial, public sector and institutional clients (including FTSE100 companies, local authorities, government departments and agencies). In addition, he has also acted in environmental litigation in the civil and criminal courts. Peter has a masters in environmental law and before qualifying as a lawyer he worked for a local authority planning department. Peter joined PLC Environment in June 2007. |
| Liz Thomas qualified at Slaughter and May in 1988, where she practised as a corporate lawyer. Following a move to Allen & Overy, she became a founder member of the environmental law group in 1990 and advised on the environmental aspects of many corporate, finance and property matters. She has latterly spent a number of years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as a knowledge management lawyer and has been involved in many knowledge management and client relationship management projects, including a secondment to a major client. Liz joined PLC Environment in September 2007. |
 | Sophie Simpson qualified as a solicitor into Linklaters’ Environment and Planning Group in 1999. Her experience includes advising on environmental issues in corporate, property and project finance transactions, as well as giving stand-alone environmental and planning advice. In 2002, she became a professional support lawyer for the Linklaters' Environment and Planning Group. Her role involved planning, creating and managing know-how systems, writing practice notes on specific areas of law and regular internal newsletters and client bulletins, drafting precedents, and supporting fee-earners with research on their matters. Sophie joined PLC Environment in July 2009. |
| Becky Clissmann trained at Denton Wilde Sapte, during which time she was seconded to ABN Amro and Goldman Sachs to work on their energy and emissions trading documentation. On qualification, she moved to Eversheds to help set up their environment practice in London. Prior to qualifying, Becky obtained extensive experience in climate change policy measures working for the Carbon Trust, where she set up an account management service for FTSE 250 companies and large public sector organisations. She also has experience in the energy and commodity markets, having worked as a Policy Manager at the UK Power Exchange (UKPX) and also the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE). Becky joined PLC Environment in October 2009. |
| Jenna Dodd graduated from the University of Manchester in 2006 with a 2:1 BA (Hons) in French and German. As part of her degree course, Jenna spent a year working as a teaching assistant in Paris. She went on to study the GDL at the College of Law, Chester, completing the course in 2007 with a commendation. She completed her LPC at the College of Law, Chester, in June 2008 with a commendation, before joining PLC in July 2008 as a paralegal for PLC Property, PLC Environment and PLC Construction. |
| Dipika Kachhala graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a BA (hons) in Law. Following a gap year spent travelling and volunteering in South America, she successfully completed the LPC at the College of Law, gaining a commendation. She went on to work at Ashurst LLP within the corporate know-how department before joining PLC in August 2009 as a paralegal in the Real Estate cluster. |
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What our clients say
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In order to give our clients honed, commercial advice we need to consider their position from a number of angles: legal context, industrial context, government regulation and future developments. The current awareness e-mail from PLC Environment is a core building block of knowledge, along with primary sources, to help develop the answer to a client’s issue. An additional factor we face in attempting to support and foster long-term relationships is providing timely advice. PLC Environment is invaluable in assisting us to meet that challenge. Environmental law is fast moving and with that comes the need to support our practice group with regular training. We use PLC Environment as the first point of call for legal know-how and training materials. For junior lawyers, PLC know-how is helping them have more reasoned questions when approaching partners and senior associates. For the more experienced members of our team, PLC know-how is providing contextualised guidance to help bring them up to speed on new or unfamiliar areas. I would describe PLC Environment as valuable, authoritative and reliable. It is valuable because it cuts down the level of formal training we need to organise internally. It is authoritative because it is current and covers so many areas. Both of these points are made possible by the quality of the people writing and maintaining the content, for this reason PLC Environment is reliable. Paul Rice, Partner |
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PLC Environment is always our first port of call for information on current environmental law issues. We have found PLC's practice notes and weekly update service to be particularly helpful. Rebecca Carriage, Associate and Oliver Ennis, Solicitor |
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PLC Environment keeps us at the fulcrum of practice. It allows us to stay on top of what is a very fast-moving and broad-ranging subject; we find the hot topics and weekly legal updates particularly helpful. With PLC taking on the time-consuming task of sifting through developments, we are freed up to focus on delivering valuable and commercial advice to our clients. When reading the resources, it is clear that they have been put together by lawyers who understand what life on the front line is like: they are logical, structured, concise and don’t hide behind legalese. A key strength of the service is the experience and quality of the people writing and maintaining the resources. They have the specialist knowledge and contacts within the industry to deliver insightful market practice and comment. PLC Environment is an important educational tool within our practice group especially because we don’t have a professional support lawyer. The fact that PLC forms the basis of our weekly training speaks volumes. Trainees are often daunted by the prospect of getting to grips with such a specialist subject. PLC Environment practice notes give trainees the foundation they need to hit the ground running and be as effective as possible in that seat. All firms are becoming cost conscious; every year we review the information sources and tools that we make available to our lawyers. PLC is a tool that we need to remain efficient and fully engaged with our clients' real issues. Paul Davies, Partner |
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Updates
PLC Environment legal updates are delivered by e-mail, as well as being available online. Subscribers can choose to receive these e-mails either weekly or monthly. We cover only those developments that are significant and of practical relevance to our subscribers. Our aim is to shield our subscribers from the avalanche of environmental information, not add to it.
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