Christopher R. Reeves is the owner and managing partner of Waltz | Reeves, where he focuses his practice on commercial, environmental, and toxic/mass tort defense litigation. He regularly represents clients in administrative matters and investigations involving OSHA, EEOC, and other agencies. He also provides outside corporate counsel and national counsel support. In the course of his practice, Mr. Reeves has tried as lead counsel in more than 36 jury trials to verdict.Having worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section, Mr. Reeves has extensive experience with environmental matters including cost recovery actions, permitting violations, and other regulatory matters relating to the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA, RCRA, and EPCRA. Mr. Reeves also has experience as a policy analyst providing support to the EPA on brownfields, RCRA, and Clean Air Act proposed regulations.Mr. Reeves clerked under Chief Administrative Law Judge Ronnie A. Yoder, at the U.S. Department of Transportation, where he handled violations under DOT Hazardous Materials Transportation Regulations including the 1996 crash of ValuJet flight 592 and the death of musician Walter Hyatt. Mr. Reeves received his J.D. degree in 2001 from Vermont Law School, where he also received his Masters of Law, cum laude, in Environmental Law. He was the Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law and a participant of Moot Court. Mr. Reeves graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. degree in Biology in 1998, where he was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society.Specialties: Administrative LawConstruction Defect LitigationCorporate LitigationEnvironmental LitigationLabor & EmploymentNatural ResourcesOSHA CompliancePremises LiabilityProducts LiabilityRegulatory Compliance