Holly P. Cole

Holly Cole

Schulten Ward & Turner, LLP

260 Peachtree Street, NW, Suite 2700
Atlanta, GA 30303

Contact Holly P. Cole

T: 404-419-2947

F: 404-688-2723

Visit: www.swtlaw.com

Practice areas: Environmental Litigation (80%), Environmental (20%)

Law School: University of Georgia School of Law

Profile

Ms. Cole joined Schulten, Ward & Turner, LLP in 2007 to help form the firm's new environmental litigation section. Her practice areas include federal litigation and compliance under the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act as well as state litigation and compliance under Georgia's Solid Waste Management Act, the Hazardous Site Response Act, and the Erosion and Sedimentation Act. Ms. Cole has developed an extensive practice in stormwater litigation representing private property owners affected by stormwater discharges from residential and commercial developments. She has successfully litigated cases before the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Georgia Supreme Court and the Georgia Court of Appeals.

Selected to:

Georgia Rising Stars 2009

No Rising Stars publication in 2008

About Holly Cole

Admitted: 2002, Georgia

Professional Webpage: www.swtlaw.com/attorneys/a_cole.htm

Bar/Professional Activity: Admitted to Georgia Bar Association in 2002, Member of Environmental Law Section.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings: Author: "Navigating Through Clean Water Act Jurisdiction After SWANCC," State Bar of Georgia, Environmental Law Section Newsletter, Fall, 2004, Co-authored with Martin A. Shelton; Author: "Counting Heads After Rapanos: Deciphering the Effects of a Fragmented Decision on Clean Water Act Jurisdiction," State Bar of Georgia, Environmental Law Section Newsletter, Winter, 2007, Co-authored with Kate F. Marks; Author: "Did the 11th Circuit Miss the Boat? Interpreting Rapanos Two Years Later in Light of EPA's and the Corps of Engineers' Rapanos Guidance and U.S. v. Robison," State Bar of Georgia, Environmental Law Section Newsletter, Summer 2008.

Verdicts and Settlements: Mark E. Chernak v. Blankenship Homes, Inc.,JLB Development, Inc. and Johnny Blankenship, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, Civil Action Number 1:03-CV-1849 (Storm Water Pollution - NPDES Compliance - Successful Jury Verdict June, 2006); Noble Builders, Inc. v. Douglasville-Douglas County Water & Sewer Authority, United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division Civil Action No. 1:04-CV-3563 (Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Federal Takings); Patti Barnette v. Morrison Homes, Inc. and Elite Development Services, Inc. United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Civil Action No. 4:05-CV-074-HLM (Storm Water/Wetlands Pollution - NPDES Compliance); Tidwell, et al. v. Douglas County School System, J&R Construction and Development, Inc. and Brad Cole Construction Company, United States District Court, Civil Action No. 1:05-cv-2800-TWT (Storm Water Pollution - NPDES Compliance); Leland Conley v. Whitmire Homes, Inc. and Saddle Creek Development, LLC, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Civil Action No: 2:03-CV-0049-RWS (Storm Water Pollution - NPDES Compliance); Noontootla Group, LLC, et al v. Jerry Sisson, Charlotte Sission and Fannin County, Georgia, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Civil Action No: 2:02-CV-0131-WCO (Storm Water Pollution - NPDES Compliance); Raymond and Carla Brown, et al v. Tenaska, Inc., et al., United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Newnan Division, Civil Action No. 3-03CV-135-JTC (Nuisance from operation of power plants).

Representative Clients: City of Mountain Park, Georgia v. Lakeside at Ansley, LLC, et al., 560 F.Supp.2d 1288 (N.D. Ga. 2008) (jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act); Parker v. Scrap Metal Processors, Inc., 468 F.3d 733 (11th Cir. 2006) (supplemental jurisdiction for state law claims in federal court and enforcement of Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act injunctive relief); Amin v. Guruom, Inc., 280 GA 873, 635 S.E.2d 105 , (Ga. 2006) (use of parol evidence in quiet title and deed reformation actions); Colony Bank Southeast v. Brown et al., 275 S.E.2d 807 (Ga. App. 2005) (application of lis pendens to property involved in Clean Water Act suit).

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