Madeleine B. Kadas
Principal
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- Clean Air Act
- Environmental Litigation
- Global Product Stewardship
- Hazardous Waste/RCRA
- Overseas Compliance and Regulations
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- White Collar Defense/Corporate Compliance
- Workplace Health and Safety
- University of Texas (B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1988)
- La Universita di Firenze, Italy (1987)
- National Security Endowment Program Graduate Fellow
- University of Texas (J.D., 1994)
- La Escuela Libre de Derecho School of Law, Mexico (L.L.M., 1997)
- International Environmental Law Journal, Book Review Editor (1993-94)
- Texas (1994)
- District of Columbia (1999)
- American Bar Association
- District of Columbia Bar Association
- Texas Bar Association
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
Maddie Kadas practices both domestic and international environmental law and is the Managing Principal of Beveridge & Diamond's Austin, Texas office and Chair of the Latin American practice. Maddie represents the Firm's clients on a variety of regulatory and litigation matters under U.S. domestic environmental laws, and has extensive experience in air and waste issues affecting the chemical manufacturing and refining sectors. As part of that experience, she has both managed and participated in facility compliance assessments and audits, including numerous Title V permit certifications under the federal Clean Air Act.
Fluent in Spanish, she also assists clients with compliance and regulatory matters in Latin America. For almost a decade, she has served in an “in-house” capacity managing the Latin American environmental portfolio of a Fortune-50 Company with significant operations in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Puerto Rico. In that capacity, she has provided strategic guidance on numerous product stewardship and waste related initiatives, supervised local counsel, worked closely with Company teams to prepare applications for local authorizations to manage and export waste, and drafted public comments and position papers on local laws, regulations, and technical standards. For many years, Maddie has provided regulatory tracking services for a major U.S. trade association on pending Latin American initiatives affecting the electronics sector.
Before joining Beveridge & Diamond, Maddie was a staff attorney with the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) (now the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) and represented the Executive Director in contested cases relating to low-level radioactive and industrial hazardous waste permits.
Maddie is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. She is one of a handful of U.S. attorneys to receive a post-graduate degree from La Escuela Libre de Derecho School of Law, Mexico's premier law school, where she wrote and defended a thesis on Mexico's hazardous waste and remediation standards. From 1988-1990, she served in the United States Peace Corps in Guatemala. She is a frequent writer and speaker on the subject of domestic and international environmental law.
