Mr. Slavich, a shareholder in the firm, has a diversified environmental law practice where he provides strategic advice to clients on a broad range of environmental issues, including the environmental aspects of real estate, corporate, and commercial transactions, remediation matters, brownfield redevelopment, compliance matters, and climate change. He enjoys working with parties to structure deals that can put environmentally-impacted properties back on the market and into productive use. His environmental practice is complemented by more than a decade of prior experience practicing corporate finance and commercial law. Texas Monthly magazine named him as a Texas Super Lawyer in their inaugural listing in 2003 and in each subsequent listing. He is also listed in Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA – Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers, and Guide to the World’s Leading Environmental Lawyers. Mr. Slavich is rated AV by Martindale Hubbell.

Mr. Slavich regularly lectures and writes on environmental law topics. His chapter on the Texas Voluntary Cleanup Program is included in Brownfields: A Comprehensive Guide to Redeveloping Contaminated Property (American Bar Association, 2002). Other publications include “Securities Disclosure Requirements and Climate Change” in The Law of Climate Change (The Center for American and International Law, 2008); “Power Tools: Using Municipal Setting Designations and the Dry Cleaner Remediation Program to Address Contaminated Property in Texas,” in 29th Annual State Bar of Texas Advanced Real Estate Course (2007); “Sow’s Ear to Silk Purse: Commercial Redevelopment of Contaminated Property” for ICSC U.S. Shopping Center Law Conference, October 2005; “Structuring Considerations in Transactions with Environmental Issues,” in Advanced Environmental Law Course (State Bar of Texas, 1996); and “Contractual Efforts to Allocate the Risk of Environmental Liability: Is There A Way To Make Indemnities Worth More Than The Paper They Are Written On?,” 44 Sw.L.J. 1349 (1991).

Mr. Slavich received his law degree from Washington University School of Law, where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Washington University Law Quarterly. He earned his master of business administration degree at Southern Methodist University and his undergraduate degree at Earlham College.

Mr. Slavich is a member of the State Bar of Texas. He is also a member of the Environmental Law Section (Chair, 2001) and the Real Property Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association; the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section, the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section (Environmental Subcommittee), and the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas; and the Environment, Energy, and Resources Section, the Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, and the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association.