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John Carney Chairs and Speaks, Jimmy Fokas Speaks at PLI Basics of Accounting for Lawyers 2025

Webinar Series: Transforming Legacy Management Experience

Rebecca Schrote Presents on APEX Depositions at Columbus Bar Association CLE Session

To Help the New Administration Help Your Industry, You Need an Agency Strategy (Real Estate Finance Journal)

Mark has been recognized by Chambers USA for environmental litigation (2015 to 2024), and has been named by Law360 as one of the "Top 5 Environmental Attorneys Under the Age of 40" on two occasions.

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J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004, 

B.A., University of Florida, 2001, 

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<li>The Legal 500 United States (2019)
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<li>Recommended in Environment Litigation</li>
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<li>Chambers USA: Environment in the District of Columbia (2015 to 2024)
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<li>Band 4 (2021 to 2024), Band 5 (2017 to 2020), Up and Coming (2015 to 2016)</li>
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<li>Law360 &#8220;Rising Star&#8221; in Environmental (2016)</li>
<li>Law360 &#8220;Top 5 Environmental Attorneys Under the Age of 40&#8221;</li>
<li>Martindale-Hubbell: AV Preeminent</li>
<li>Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers
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<li>&#8220;Super Lawyer&#8221; (2018 to 2020)</li>
<li>&#8220;Rising Star&#8221; (2014)</li>
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Chambers USA Guide 2024 Recognizes 155 BakerHostetler Attorneys and ­66 Practice Areas

Years of Litigation in High-Profile Defamation Case End with Favorable Result

Chambers USA Guide 2023 Honors 147 BakerHostetler Attorneys and Recognizes 64 Practice Areas

BakerHostetler Team Named Environmental Group of the Year by Law360

<i>West Virginia v. EPA</i>: The Supreme Court’s Climate Change Decision That Limits Federal Administrative Power

<i>West Virginia v. EPA</i>: What This Means for Federal Agency Rulemaking Going Forward

BakerHostetler Earns Turnaround Atlas Award for ‘Energy Restructuring of the Year’

Chambers USA Guide 2022 Honors 145 BakerHostetler Attorneys and Recognizes 62 Practice Areas

Chambers and Partners USA Honors 134 BakerHostetler Attorneys and 55 Practice Areas in 2021 USA Guide

Mark DeLaquil Comments on Supreme Court Ruling in Key Oil Industry Case

BakerHostetler Attorneys Make Significant Gains in The Legal 500 Annual Guide

Chambers and Partners USA Honors 127 Attorneys and 43 Practice Areas in 2019 Guide

<i>Chambers and Partners USA</i> Honors 118 Attorneys and 45 Practice Areas  in 2018 Guide

BakerHostetler talks with <i>USA Today</i> about the SIPA Trustee’s fourth pro rata interim distribution; states Madoff Recovery Initiative nears $6 billion in distributions to allowed claimants

Law360 article on SCOTUS Request for DOJ Opinion on SIPA Trustee’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari names BakerHostetler attorneys

BakerHostetler’s settlement with JPMorgan Chase and the ongoing Madoff Recovery Initiative Discussed on National Public Radio’s <i>All Things Considered</i>

BakerHostetler appears on NPR’s <i>All Things Considered</i> to discuss Madoff Recovery Initiative; host Robert Siegel interviews SIPA Trustee Irving Picard and his Chief Counsel David Sheehan

Madoff Recovery Initiative surpasses $5 billion in distributions to allowed claimants; CNBC’s Scott Cohn discusses latest recovery with BakerHostetler’s SIPA Trustee Irving Picard and his Chief Counsel David Sheehan

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<h5>Environmental Regulatory Proceedings and Litigation</h5>
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<li>Represented state and private clients in Clean Air Act administrative proceedings and litigation, including preparing comments on proposed actions and contesting them in courts of appeals. Has extensive experience in actions concerning climate change, air quality standards, emission standards, preconstruction and operating permits and state implementation plans.
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<li>Represented a petroleum refinery in litigation concerning EPA’s denial of a small refinery hardship waiver from the Clean Air Act Renewable Fuel Standards program.</li>
<li>Counseled a petroleum refinery on compliance strategies for the Clean Air Act Renewable Fuel Standards program, including RIN retirement requirements.</li>
<li>Represented a petroleum refinery in enforcement litigation concerning alleged violations of Clean Air Act NSPS and NESHAP programs.</li>
<li>Represented a manufacturing company in administrative and federal court litigation defending the validity of its preconstruction and operating air permit. Judgment entered for manufacturing company in all cases.</li>
<li>Counseled a leading electric utility on Clean Air Act compliance strategy and the potential legal implications of climate change for the U.S. industry.</li>
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<h5>Trial and Appellate Litigation</h5>
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<li>Represented parties in appeals throughout the U.S. and argued numerous appeals in the Second, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and District of Columbia Circuits.
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<li>Lead counsel to Petitioner in U.S. Supreme Court litigation concerning regulation of carbon dioxide under Clean Air Act NSPS program.</li>
<li>Argued appeals on behalf of manufacturers in support of affirmance of a decision dismissing a citizen suit alleging violations of the Clean Air Act preconstruction permitting program.</li>
<li>Argued an appeal on behalf of a nonprofit organization in support of affirmance of a preliminary injunction stopping a criminal investigation.</li>
<li>Argued an appeal in support of the reversal of a decision confirming labor arbitration awards.</li>
<li>Argued a challenge to a decision revising approval of a state implementation plan arising out of the Clean Air Act greenhouse gas regulation.</li>
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<li>Lead trial counsel or co-lead trial counsel in numerous federal court trials.
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<li>Lead trial counsel in an action obtaining permanent injunction barring the enforcement of state law binding delegates to national party conventions to the results of a presidential preference primary.</li>
<li>Co-lead trial counsel representing inventor in bench trial on whether the inventor was barred by prosecution laches from obtaining multiple patents. The court granted judgment on partial findings in favor of inventor.</li>
<li>Lead or co-lead trial counsel for inventor in three federal court trials to obtain patents. Judgment that the inventor was entitled to a patent in all cases.</li>
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<li>Represented parties and <em>amici curiae</em> in proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court and nearly all of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.
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<li>Represented an <em>amicus</em> group composed of all former Secretaries of Defense and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in an appeal of a decision denying qualified immunity to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, helping secure a rehearing en banc.</li>
<li>Represented an <em>amicus </em>group of law professors before the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a petition for <em>certiorari </em>and merits proceedings in a global climate change public nuisance suit against electric utilities.</li>
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<h5>Political Law</h5>
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<li>Represented clients in a full array of campaign finance matters, from counseling compliance to successfully challenging the enforcement of state campaign finance law.
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<li>Obtained a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of a state law requiring certain social welfare organizations to register as political committees.</li>
<li>Obtained a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of a state law barring coordination between candidates and unaffiliated organizations concerning issues advocacy.</li>
<li>Argued an appeal seeking affirmance of a decision enjoining a criminal investigation into alleged state campaign finance violations.</li>
<li>Has counseled businesses and nonprofit entities on compliance with campaign finance and ethics law requirements.</li>
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