TCEQ Loading Your Docs onto World-wide Web

The public, environmental groups, plaintiff’s attorneys, and others are beginning to gain access to files that previously required a TCEQ Open Records request or a physical trip to a TCEQ file room (see TCEQ File Room On-Line)

As these documents become more available and visible, the liabilities associated with these documents will increase. Stock prices can be affected. Multi-million dollar lawsuits can be initiated. Criminal risks can increase.

The AL Law Group has created a quick and affordable legal review mechanism called “ASLER” (Agency Submittal Legal Review Service) to help companies reduce liabilities and costs associated with agency submissions. The AL Law Group reviews wording, legal requirements, and other potential legal pitfalls based on years of knowledge, expertise, and experience reviewing similar submittals for companies across Texas.

Below are a few excerpts from Fortune 100 and other company agency submissions found on the web where ASLER could provide a quick and cost-effective review mechanism to help reduce the potential effect these statements might have during a courtroom cross-examination or in a Houston Chronicle article:

Company Statements

Pipeline had a “catastrophic failure”
“Excessive corrosion caused leaks in the vacuum lines.”
Equipment was “very corroded”.
“We found a severe carryover of some kind of sludge which plugged off the whole cylinder.”
“Electricians tried to locate the problem because it kept acting differently all the time.”
“We have been having a slow rain all day and figured that this was the cause of the blip.”
“[T]he rupture disk failed … due to fatigue caused by age.”
“Production people did something that caused our inlet rates to keep steadily climbing.”
“Shutdown inlet compressor to change out bad valves.”
“Operator was distracted due to working in a severe thunderstorm.”
“The manual steam control valve was partically bypassed open and was not closed quick enought” [sic.]
“He made adjustments on the unit … but was not agressive enough in his adjustments …” [sic.]
“Lost just about everything at the plant.”

Here is what one Fortune 100 Company said about AL Law Group’s review service:

-----“The AL Law Group Deviation Report Review was a great investment for our Company. The insights were welcomed by the internal client and we are making improvements to our processes based on the advice received.”—In-House Counsel of a Fortune 100 Company

ASLER offers a quick and affordable legal review of agency submissions such as deviation reports, permit application submittals, MACT/NSPS reports, NOV/NOE responses, agency response letters, and agency response emails (which also can become public).

ASLER and other innovative AL Law Group “Environmental Legal Products”, along with the firm’s reduced cost structure, are redefining the environmental legal industry. Below are just some of the acclaims of our attorneys.

Former partners and attorneys with Vinson & Elkins, Baker Botts, Bracewell, and Kelly Hart
Listed in the Legal 500 U.S.
Profiled in Chambers
Listed in “Top 50 Female Super Lawyers” in Texas
Who’s Who in American Law
Texas Rising Star – Texas Monthly Magazine
Lawyers on the Fast Track – H Texas magazine
Listed in “Super Lawyers”
National Women’s Council Top 25 Business Women in Houston
U.S. 5th Circuit Court Clerk
Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law School
Texas Supreme Court Briefing Attorney
Listed in “Top 50 Central & West Texas Super Lawyers” in Texas

To begin your ASLER service to help reduce costs and liabilities associated with increasingly available and visible agency submissions, please contact the AL Law Group at (281) 852-8064 or visit our website at www.allawgp.com.