WORKSHOPS: Green Energy

Donsia Strong Hill is a graduate of the John Marshall Law School and a shareholder at Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. Before joining the firm, Donsia was a principal of Tyson Strong Hill, LLC, a law firm concentrating in public finance and serving as counderwriter's counsel in financings representing over $1 billion. >From her Green Bay and Milwaukee offices, Donsia provides bond and underwriter's counsel services to municipalities, housing authorities, investment banking houses, developers and redevelopment authorities. Donsia acted as one of the counsel for the historic $170 million bond offering that funded the Lambeau Field renovation.

During 2003 and 2004, Donsia served as a member of Governor Doyle's cabinet where she was responsible for the Department of Regulation and Licensing's overall administration, its $23 million dollar biennial budget, and its 120 full time employees.

Donsia also served as a senior policy analyst for Indian Affairs for President Bill Clinton. In that capacity, she authored historic memorandum in which President Clinton ordered each department to ensure appropriate government to government consultation with tribes. As a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy, Donsia worked on the U.S. Government's efforts to assist South Africa in electrifying rural townships.

Donsia's legal career began in Dallas at Johnson & Gibbs, P.C. There, almost two decades ago, she began accumulating the legal expertise she now shares with her clients, including corporate law, debt restructuring and refinancing, public offerings and public finance.

Arthur J. Harrington is chair of the environmental and energy law practice group. He has more than twenty- five years of experience in environmental and more than ten years of experience in energy. He also has extensive experience in litigation relating to these practice areas and serves as mediator in environmental disputes, and has represented a number of municipalities.

He received his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1972, and his Juris Doctor degree in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin. His academic honors include Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif, and a member of the Wisconsin Law Review, where he also served as note and comment editor.

Art has experiences in all of the subjects covered by the practice of environmental law including air, water, wetlands, solid and hazardous waste permitting under federal and state environmental laws. He has provided lead responsibility for many major environmental land use disputes as well as transactions involving contaminated property. His experience also includes counseling and, where necessary, defense to targets in civil and criminal environmental enforcement actions.