DENVER, CO – September 4th, 2024
Kevin Hannon, Managing Partner of Singleton Schreiber’s Environmental Litigation Group, was elected last month as a Member of The Board of Directors of The Public Justice Foundation Board of Directors. Founded in January 1982, Public Justice is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that takes on purveyors of corporate corruption, sexual abusers and harassers, and environmental polluters.
With Kevin’s decades of experience successfully litigating environmental cases in multiple state and federal courts, he’ll provide valuable expertise and leadership on the organization’s advocacy efforts. Some of Kevin’s prior work includes two environmental trials, Orjias v. Louisiana-Pacific and Escamilla v. Asarco, which achieved the largest jury awards in environmental cases in Colorado at the time of verdict.
Kevin has successfully completed cases involving air, groundwater, soil and noise pollution and continues to represent businesses and individuals for personal injury and property damage from solvents, heavy metals, lead waste, lead paint, radiation, pesticides, petroleum products, and other substances. He also has served and now serves as lead counsel in several environmental class actions in several states including Arizona and Missouri.
In addition to Kevin’s election to the Public Justice Governing Board, he is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA), American Association of Justice, and bar and trial associations for the District of Columbia, Missouri, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. He also chaired the American Association of Justice’s Environmental and Toxics Committee from 2022-2023.
“I’m thankful to Public Justice for entrusting me to serve on the Governing Board this year, and I look forward to utilizing my experience to continue leading advocacy efforts for trial lawyers, fighting against polluters, and ensuring a clean environment for all,” said Kevin Hannon, Singleton Schreiber partner.
Singleton Schreiber is a client-centered law firm, specializing in mass torts/multidistrict litigation, fire litigation, personal injury/wrongful death, civil rights, environmental law, and sex abuse/trafficking. Over the last decade, the firm has recovered more than $2.5 billion for clients who have been harmed and sought justice. The firm also has the largest fire litigation practice in the country, having represented over 26,000 victims of wildfire, most notably serving plaintiffs in litigation related to the 2023 Maui wildfires, the Colorado Marshall wildfire, the Washington Gray wildfire, the Texas Smokehouse Creek wildfire, several California wildfires, and others.
Public Justice is a national public interest advocacy organization that combines high-impact litigation with strategic communications and partnerships to fight abusive corporate power and predatory practices, the assault on civil rights, and the destruction of the earth’s sustainability. The Public Justice Environmental Enforcement Project holds polluters accountable by enforcing environmental laws and winning groundbreaking results in court to protect clean water, air, and land—and the people, animals, and ecological communities that rely upon it. For more information, visit www.publicjustice.net.
