About R. Lee Vail
He practices inside the environmental regulatory, Process Safety Management, emergency reaction, and intellectual property companies. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana and holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining Kean Miller, Lee served as Manager of Environmental Affairs for a worldwide oil and gas enterprise.
Lee brings more than 30 years of manner engineering, undertaking management, system protection control, and environmental regulatory enjoy inside the petroleum refining industry to the representation of enterprise clients. His expertise consists of state-of-the-art interaction on behalf of industry clients in connection with regulatory compliance and permitting, Process Safety Management (PSM), Risk Management Program (RMP), RAGAGEP, Process Safety Information (PSI), OSHA, EPA, and CSB investigations, launch reporting, incident management, and litigation avoidance. Lee also represents clients in reference to pipeline regulatory and protection troubles beneath PHMSA and Louisiana Department of Natural Resources applications, including jurisdictional determinations, registration necessities, compliance and due diligence associated with mergers/acquisitions of pipeline facilities or financing of tasks consisting of pipelines.
Lee is likewise a registered Patent Lawyer and is certified to exercise earlier than the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Lee brings more than 30 years of manner engineering, undertaking management, system protection control, and environmental regulatory enjoy inside the petroleum refining industry to the representation of enterprise clients. His expertise consists of state-of-the-art interaction on behalf of industry clients in connection with regulatory compliance and permitting, Process Safety Management (PSM), Risk Management Program (RMP), RAGAGEP, Process Safety Information (PSI), OSHA, EPA, and CSB investigations, launch reporting, incident management, and litigation avoidance. Lee also represents clients in reference to pipeline regulatory and protection troubles beneath PHMSA and Louisiana Department of Natural Resources applications, including jurisdictional determinations, registration necessities, compliance and due diligence associated with mergers/acquisitions of pipeline facilities or financing of tasks consisting of pipelines.
Lee is likewise a registered Patent Lawyer and is certified to exercise earlier than the United States Patent and Trademark Office.