Attorneys, Jenner & Block LLP
Gabrielle Sigel, a partner in Jenner & Block’s Environmental Practice, is Co-Chair of her Firm’s Climate and Clean Technology Law Practice.
Ms. Sigel’s national practice focuses primarily on environmental, safety and health litigation and counseling, toxic tort defense, and insurance coverage litigation and counseling. She recently concluded several toxic tort lawsuits concerning a contaminated site located in a residential area. A significant portion of Ms. Sigel’s litigation practice involves representing employers in matters concerning work-related injuries, including OSHA proceedings, personal injury lawsuits, criminal investigations, workers compensation hearings and insurance coverage claims.
In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Sigel advises clients on a variety of counseling, regulatory and transactional issues. For example, she currently is advising a multinational corporation on how to address climate change issues, including working to develop definitions, inventory and programs for greenhouse gas emission reduction. Her transactional experience has included due diligence investigations of environmental, safety and health issues nationwide, in Europe and in in preparation for both sales and acquisitions of manufacturing concerns.
Ms. Sigel has been an adjunct professor, teaching environmental law at Northwestern University School of Law. She is active in the American Bar Association, Sections of Litigation and Environment, Energy and Resources. The Illinois State Bar Association appointed her to its Environmental Law Section Council. Ms. Sigel began developing her diverse legal practice when she joined Jenner & Block in 1983, immediately after graduating *** laude from Boston University School of Law. Ms. Sigel is AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer recognition for ethical standards and legal ability.
Michael R. Strong is an associate in Jenner & Block’s Chicago office. Mr. Strong is a member of the firm’s Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Department and Climate and Clean Technology Practices.
Mr. Strong earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 2007. During law school, Mr. Strong served as an associate editor for the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review and as a student attorney in the general clinic. Mr. Strong graduated *** laude from Dartmouth College in 2004, receiving a dual degree in Government (with Honors) and Mathematics.
Mr. Strong is a member of the Illinois bar.
Patricia L. Boye-Williams is an associate in Jenner & Block’s Chicago office. She is a member of the Firm’s Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law, Climate and Clean Technology Law and the Insurance Litigation and Counseling Practice Groups.
Ms. Boye-Williams graduated from Cornell University in 1998 with a bachelors of science in Natural Resources. In 2003, Ms. Boye-Williams graduated with high honors from Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law with a certificate from the college’s Program of Environmental and Energy Law and is a member of the Order of the Coif. She is a member of the Illinois Bar and admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois and the Western District of Michigan.
About Jenner & Block. Jenner & Block LLP is a national law firm with more than 450 lawyers experienced in virtually every area of the law. Jenner & Block’s reputation as one of the country’s most successful law firms has been established by consistently delivering excellent legal counsel to clients in the boardroom and the courtroom, from the trial level through the United States Supreme Court. In keeping with the Firms tradition of proactively addressing the needs of the global business community, Jenner & Block’s Climate and Clean Technology Law Practice takes a unique, holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to addressing its clients’ needs in this rapidly evolving area of the law.