B&D Elects Russell Fraker Of Counsel

Beveridge & Diamond recently elected Russell Fraker as Of Counsel. Russell represents clients in domestic and international environmental matters, predominantly through compliance counseling on regulatory regimes affecting facilities and products. He has broad, multi-jurisdictional experience with air, biosafety, chemical, product stewardship, waste, and water laws. As a member of the firm’s Latin America practice group, he assists companies with a wide range of compliance issues across the region, including market access requirements for products, facility permitting and audits, defense against enforcement actions, transactional due diligence, and waste classification and management.

Russell joined B&D as an Associate in 2009. Before entering the practice of law, Russell worked as an environmental consultant to the oil, forestry, and telecommunications industries, as a marine fisheries observer, and in the planning, permitting, and repair of undersea cable systems in over twenty countries. He received his law degree in 2008 from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was a Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and a co-founder and Managing Editor of the Environmental Law & Policy Annual Review.