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Mr. Halprin draws on his technical and business background to counsel individual companies and trade associations in a broad range of workplace health and safety, environmental, product safety, and business transactions issues. He has a hands-on familiarity with the manufacturing environment and has represented clients in the aerospace, chemical, construction, electronics, food, machines, paper and forest products, pharmaceuticals, plastics, steel, telecommunications and transportation industries. Mr. Halprin works with clients in developing, implementing and auditing environmental, health and safety management programs; he advises on legal compliance issues; and he represents clients in a broad range of enforcement and rulemaking proceedings at the federal and state levels. Mr. Halprin has been a strong advocate of re-inventing government, particularly with respect to regulatory reform. He has testified before Congress and participated in numerous government rulemakings in an effort to limit agency rules to what is necessary, practical and justified by appropriate risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. Mr. Halprin is a frequent writer and speaker on regulatory reform and a broad range of environmental, health and safety management issues. In his transactional practice, Mr. Halprin has provided counsel and negotiated: real estate purchase and leasing agreements for residential and commercial properties; real estate financing agreements for commercial office buildings; asset sales agreements; and telecommunications system design, construction and operating agreements. Before joining Keller and Heckman, Mr. Halprin clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Johnston of the U.S. Tax Court. Mr. Halprin is a member of the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania Bars. Stefanie M. Corbitt Stefanie Corbitt, Keller and Heckman's OSHA Regulatory Specialist, has extensive compliance and regulatory experience in the health, safety and environmental fields. As the original environmental, safety and health manager for the Texas location of the world's leading supplier of beverage dispensing equipment, Ms. Corbitt was responsible for the creation and implementation of all facility safety and health programs. The primary manufacturing activities performed at the foundry included: molten aluminum molding; screw machining; light assembly; acid passivation; and materials handling. After relocating to the Washington D.C. area, Ms. Corbitt was employed as a Health Compliance Officer for the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry's, OSHA division. As the sole health compliance officer, she was responsible for all health-related inspections in a seventeen county region in Northern Virginia. As a result, she gained experience with a broad variety of workplace settings ranging from heavy manufacturing to healthcare facilities. Some industries inspected include:food processing plants, polyurethane molding operations, sheet metal shops, automotive parts manufacture, as well as municipal water treatment facilities, schools, police stations and various healthcare operations. Her expertise was used in a fatal accident involving explosive gases. Ms. Corbitt's experience as a facility safety professional and a Health Compliance Officer affords her a unique perspective when assisting our clients. Stefanie understands the requirements of a production operation as well as the need to integrate workplace safety and health regulations. To that end, she has the ability to perform a 'Mock' OSHA Inspection and training session to assist in compliance readiness, in addition, she has the ability to review required written programs for completeness. Lastly, Ms. Corbitt is capable of providing training to facility management as well as operations employees. Frederick Community College (A.A., 1989); West Virginia University (B.A., 1991); West Virginia University (M.S.E. Occupational Safety and Health, 1993).
James A. Lastowka is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Washington, D.C. office and is a member of the Firm's OSHA Practice Group. Jim has practiced exclusively in the field of occupational safety and health for close to 30 years. He is a recognized authority on OSHA and MSHA law and has a nationwide safety and health practice. Jim's practice includes responding onsite to catastrophic industrial and construction workplace accidents, including explosions, chemical releases and collapses of tunnels, scaffolds, and other structures, conducting internal investigations of fatal and other workplace accidents, managing investigations by OSHA, MSHA, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), EPA, and ATF, as well as by state and local regulatory and law enforcement agencies, and structuring industrial hygiene surveys or other exposure assessments regarding potential employee exposures to toxic chemicals or mold. In addition, Jim's practice includes providing compliance counseling, conducting safety and health audits and due diligence reviews, handling the full range of OSHA and MSHA litigation, including appeals of citations, penalties and withdrawal orders, investigating and defending discrimination and whistleblower complaints, and participating in rule making proceedings. Key Accomplishments
Jim is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania *All CD orders will be assessed a $20 Shipping & Handling Fee for CD and Conference Materials. *A $25 CEU processing fee applies for all CEU requests Questions About this AudioConference CD? Call 1-800-431-7571
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