Background
Racher, Peter M. was born in 1956.
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Peter M. Racher
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Oberlin College (Bachelor of Arts, 1978). Indiana University-Bloomington (Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1986).
Career
Worked at Plews Shadley Racher & Braun (Indianapolis, Indiana) specializing in Environmental and other scientific and technical matters including Federal and State Court Litigation and Appeals, Regulatory Compliance and Permitting, Environmental Insurance Coverage, Federal and State Administrative Actions, Coal and other Natural Resources, Toxic Torts, Environmental Due Diligence, Real Estate, Financial Services and Patent, Trademark and Copyright. Admitted to the bar, 1986, Indiana and United States. District Court, Southern and Northern Districts of Indiana.
Order of the Coif.
Associate, Indiana Law Journal. "Litigator of The Year," awarded by Hoosier Environmental Council, 1995. Author: "Discoverability of Privileged Physician-Patient and Peer Review Communications," Indiana Law Review, 1989.
Company-Author: "Corporate Structure and Transaction Issues: How to Minimize Your Clients" Risk of Personal Liability for Environmental Cleanups," Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, 1990.
"Administrative Law: When Agencies Don"t Play By the Rules," Indiana Law Review, Volume 3, 1991. Author: "Clean Air Acting Amendments Leave Small Business Up in the Air," Indiana Law Review, 1992.
Author: "The Right to Protection of Reputation Under the Indiana Bill of Rights," Indiana Civil Liberties Union Symposium on State Constitutional Law Issues, 1994. Speaker: "Toxic Torts," sponsored by Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, September 19, 1995.
"Indiana"s Voluntary Remediation Program," Environmental Regulation in Indiana, sponsored by Institute of Business Law, California State University, Los Angeles, March 21-22, 1995.
Speaker: "Employment Regulations in Indiana-Toxic Torts in the Workplace," Sponsored by Institute of Business Law, February 14, 1996. Company-Author and Speaker: "Administrative Remedies: Avoiding Exhaustion," What Your Mother Didn"t Tell You About the Administrative Orders and Procedures Acting, sponsored by Indiana State Bar Association, Environmental Law Section, November 3, 1994. Member: Indianapolis, Indiana State (Vice-Chair, Environmental Section) and American (Environmental, Natural Resources and Litigation Sections) Bar Associations.
Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Since its founding in 1988 Plews Shadley Racher & Braun has concentrated its practice in environmental and other scientific and technical law. The firm"s attorneys all have substantial experience and expertise in a wide range of environmental law matters.
The firm serves clients throughout Indiana, the Midwest, and the nation. Plews Shadley Racher & Braun handles administrative, state and federal trials and appeals covering a broad spectrum of environmental and related cases, including the prosecution and defense of claims involving CERCLA, RCRA, clean air and water acts, underground and aboveground storage tanks, toxic torts, environmental property damage claims, and governmental enforcement actions of all kinds.
The firm also maintains a substantial practice representing policyholders in environmental and other insurance coverage claims.
The firm has actively participated in Superfund cases in a number of states and has organized committees to represent various interest groups in such efforts. Plews Shadley Racher & Braun assists clients in interpreting and complying with state, federal and local environmental rules and in pursuing necessary permits. The firm also advises clients on environmental issues in real estate and business transactions, in conducting environmental due diligence and audit work, in undertaking voluntary cleanups, in developing programs for limiting liability exposure, and in drafting and monitoring legislation and rules.
The firm represents clients in a variety of similarly complex technical matters such as products liability cases.
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Membership
Member: Indianapolis, Indiana State (Vice-Chair, Environmental Section) and American (Environmental, Natural Resources and Litigation Sections) Bar Associations. Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
