Jack Smith is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. He practices in Charleston in the areas of environmental law and litigation, administrative law, land use law, and constitutional law.

Experience

• Environmental practice includes hazardous waste site management and remediation, contaminated property liability negotiation, litigation, redevelopment and related regulatory counseling
• Experienced in matters of administrative law, land use planning and zoning law, and he has worked with brownfields redevelopment, environmental insurance and environmental regulatory permitting
• CERCLA experience includes pre-disclosure counseling of corporate clients with CERCLA liability, counseling on environmental liability issues of real property ownership and transactions (including leasing), brownfields redevelopment projects, negotiation of contract language for contaminated property transactions and environmental insurance
• Has represented PRPs in complex private and government litigation, including environmental issues in international transportation liability

Previous Professional Experience

• Worked for state and federal government agencies
• Held attorney positions with the Office of Coastal Resources Management (1978 - 1980), National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the S.C. Coastal Council (staff attorney, 1980 – 1989)
• Appointed alternate delegate for the State of South Carolina to the Coastal States Organization(1982 – 1989)

Professional Associations and Memberships

• South Carolina Bar
• Administrative Law, Environment, Energy and Resources, and International Law and Practice sections, American Bar Association
• Environment and Natural Resources Section, Founding Chair, South Carolina Bar