Lawrence Halprin joined Keller and Heckman in 1978.
Mr. Halprin draws on his technical and business background to counsel individual companies and trade associations in a broad range of workplace health and safety, environmental, product safety, and business transactions issues. He has a hands-on familiarity with the manufacturing environment and has represented clients in the aerospace, chemical, construction, electronics, food, machines, paper and forest products, pharmaceuticals, plastics, steel, telecommunications and transportation industries.
Mr. Halprin works with clients in developing, implementing and auditing environmental, health and safety management programs. He also advises clients on legal compliance issues and represents them in a broad range of enforcement and rulemaking proceedings at the federal and state levels. Mr. Halprin has been a strong advocate of measures to enhance the effectiveness of regulatory agencies. He has testified before Congress and participated in numerous government rulemakings in an effort to ensure that the scope and requirements of agency rules reflect what is necessary, practical and justified by appropriate risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. Mr. Halprin is a frequent writer and speaker on a broad range of environmental, health and safety management issues.
In his transactional practice, Mr. Halprin has provided counsel and negotiated: waste management agreements; purchase, leasing and financing agreements for residential and commercial properties; equipment purchase, leasing and financing agreements; asset sales agreements; and telecommunications system design, construction and operating agreements. Before joining Keller and Heckman, Mr. Halprin clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Johnston of the U.S. Tax Court.