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• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Appellate Litigation
• Clean Water Act
• Environmental Litigation
• Pesticides
• Superfund/CERCLA
• Toxic Tort and Product Liability

• Yale University (B.A., 1982)
• Columbia University (J.D., 1987)
• Articles Editor, Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems

• Virginia (1987)
• District of Columbia (1989)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit (1988)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit (1994)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (2008)
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of VA (1991)
• U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (1991)
• U.S. District Court, Western District of VA (2002)
• American Bar Association
• Environmental Law Institute
• Defense Research Institute
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Fairfax Bar Association
• Water Environment Federation

Jimmy Slaughter has a national practice in environmental litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Slaughter joined Beveridge & Diamond in 1991 after three years as an Assistant and Senior Assistant Public Defender in Fairfax County, Virginia. While with the Public Defender's Office, Mr. Slaughter successfully defended against a capital murder indictment in Commonwealth v. Reed (1991). Before joining the Public Defender's Office, Mr. Slaughter clerked for the Honorable James Sprouse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Slaughter has tried numerous jury and bench trials and argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals, the Virginia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, as well as federal and state trial courts across the country. He holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Mr. Slaughter is nationally recognized for his experience and innovative approaches to the defense of beneficial use of biosolids.  In particular, Mr. Slaughter has aggressively and successfully challenged local ordinances that restrict or ban land application of this fertilizer.

Toxic tort defense forms a major part of Mr. Slaughter's practice, including defense of wrongful death and other serious personal injury claims.  Mr. Slaughter has secured pre-trial orders compelling plaintiffs to provide admissible evidence of causation of harm and has led defense efforts in a nationally prominent toxic tort case regarding the alleged health impacts of biosolids.

Mr. Slaughter also litigates and arbitrates cases under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), focusing on the defense of the rights of data owners against follow-on registrants of pesticides.  He was co-counsel with other Beveridge & Diamond Principals in the landmark case of Cheminova A/S v.Griffin L.L.C., 182 F. Supp. 2d 68 (D.D.C 2002), which underscored that data compensation awards pursuant to FIFRA’s mandatory arbitration scheme are fully enforceable in court.

Mr. Slaughter is active in the ABA Section of Litigation, the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), and the Water Environment Federation (WEF).  He currently is Chair of the Water Subcommittee of the Environmental Litigation Committee of the ABA Litigation Section.

Recent significant cases argued by Jimmy Slaughter:

• Wyatt et al. v. Sussex Surry LLC, 2007 Va. Cir. Lexis 182 (Surry Co., Va. Cir. Ct. November 2, 2007)

• City of Los Angeles et al. v. Kern County, 2007 U.S. Dist. Lexis 81696 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 25, 2007)

• City of Los Angeles et al.  v. Kern County, 509 F. Supp. 2d 865 (C.D. Cal. 2007)

• Wyatt et al. v. Sussex Surry LLC, 482 F. Supp. 2d 740 (E.D. Va. 2007)

• City of Los Angeles v. Kern County, 462 F. Supp. 2d 1105 (C.D. Cal 2006)

• City of Los Angeles v. Kern County, 2006 WL 3073172 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 24, 2006)

• SRM Chemical Ltd. v. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 355 F. Supp. 2d 373 (D.D.C. 2005)

• Synagro v. Rush Township, 299 F. Supp. 2d 410 (M.D. Pa. 2003)

• O’Brien v. Appomattox County, 293 F. Supp. 2d 660 (W.D. Va. 2003)

• O’Brien v. Appomattox County, 2003 WL 21711347 (4th Cir. 2003)

• Pfohl Brothers Landfill Site Steering Committee v. Allied Waste Systems, Inc., 255 F. Supp. 2d 134 (W.D.N.Y. 2003)

• Pfohl Brothers Landfill Site Steering Committee v. Browning-Ferris Industries of New York, Inc., 221 F. Supp. 2d 406 (W.D.N.Y. 2002)

• O’Brien v. Appomattox County,  213 F. Supp. 2d 627 (W.D. Va. 2002)

• Synagro v. Rush Township, 204 F. Supp. 2d 827 (M.D. Pa. 2002)

• Cheminova A/S v. Griffin L.L.C., 182 F. Supp. 2d 68 (D.D.C. 2002)