Firm Watch
Aug. 6, 2002
Akin Gump Expands Land Use Practice
Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld continues to build out its project and infrastructure development department with the acquisition of Carlyle W. Hall Jr., who joined the firm's Los Angeles office Aug. 1.
Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld continues to build out its project and infrastructure development department with the acquisition of Carlyle W. Hall Jr., who joined the firm's Los Angeles office Aug. 1.
"There is no more knowledgeable or highly regarded environmental and land use lawyer in California than Carlyle Hall," Jeffrey Stanfield, chair of the firm's project and infrastructure development practice, says. "We look forward to integrating his expertise with the talents of our other top-notch lawyers."
Hall, 59, joined Akin Gump from his own firm, Los Angeles' Hall & Henderson, which dissolved. There, Hall's practice focused on public policy issues involving urban planning and finance, land use, transportation and the environment.
Hall may be best known for co-founding the Center for Law in the Public Interest, one of the nation's first public-interest law groups. He did so in 1971 after two years with Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers.
Hall served as co-director of the center for 17 years and handled its land use and environmental cases.
"His advocacy efforts have helped shape environmental law in California for nearly 30 years," Stanfield says.
Hall has been in private practice since 1988 but continues to serve as chairman of the center's board of trustees.
Akin Gump attorneys and Hall have worked together on many land use and environmental matters over the past several years. This familiarity, Hall indicates, is one of the reasons why he landed at the firm.
"I believe that no group of lawyers anywhere better understands the process of permitting and entitling major development projects," Hall says.
Hall has joined a project and infrastructure development practice group of 70 attorneys. Akin Gump has 1,000 attorneys firmwide. Its Los Angeles office, which opened in 1997, has 120 attorneys.
John Ryan
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