NEW ORLEANS – Jones Walker LLP announced Robert E. “Bob” Holden has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group on the Environmental Team in New Orleans.
Holden practices from the New Orleans office and focuses on providing clients with lawful solutions to environmental challenges. Holden’s clients include energy, chemical and manufacturing companies across the southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico. He also represents natural resources, petrochemical and industrial companies.
He works with clients on Clean Air Act and Louisiana air control matters and, from 2010 to 2013, he led a team of attorneys on behalf of BP in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Throughout his career, Holden has served in several leadership capacities for various local and national environmental counsels.
Holden received his juris doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law, where he was a member of the University of Florida Law Review. He received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science from Florida State University.
Jones Walker LLP is among the 120 largest law firms in the United States serving local, regional, national and international business interests with offices in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York and Texas. The firm is committed to providing a comprehensive range of legal services to major multinational, public and private corporations, Fortune® 500 companies, money center banks, worldwide insurers, and emerging companies doing business in the United States and abroad, reps said.
