For the second time this year, Boston Partner Kip Adams appeared before the U.S. Court of Appeals on behalf of a firm client concerning complex OSHA law issues.
Specifically, on September 10, Mr. Adams presented oral argument before a three-judge panel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, challenging an Administrative Law Judge ruling that found that his client should be considered a "single-employer" with its affiliated company under OSHA law. Once again, Mr. Adams coordinated with co-counsel over several months to ensure that his arguments supported a separate but related appeal to the Tenth Circuit to argue that OSHA had failed to demonstrate in the lower court proceedings that its proposed abatements to address the hazard of workplace violence were economically feasible. It was a team effort, with Boston Partner Patricia Gary and Associate Timothy Brown and Denver Partners Todd Seelman and Thomas Dyer helping to analyze the issues, prepare the appellate briefing, and satisfy the Tenth Circuit filing, service, and disclosure requirements.
Mr. Adams is one of the founding members of the firm's Boston office and co-chair of the firm's OSHA Safety and Health Practice Group. He handles an array of civil litigation matters for clients in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire state and federal courts. Mr. Adams primarily represents businesses, insurance companies, and their insureds in complex products liability, premises liability, toxic tort, asbestos, environmental, professional liability, transportation, and general liability litigation matters.