Hugh’s practice emphasizes administrative, environmental and natural resource law. He previously practiced law in Washington, D.C. in the Office of Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Hugh served as the Deputy Attorney General, Chief of the Natural Resources Division, for the Idaho Office of Attorney General for the State's environmental and natural resource agencies.
Hugh has extensive experience in negotiating solutions to complex administrative disputes, as well as litigation experience involving hazardous waste, Clean Air Act, timber, grazing, mining, land use and environmental impact statements. His practice focuses cleaning up contaminated property, developing environmental compliance programs, environmental permitting and implementation of environmental regulations.
Hugh served on a National Academy of Sciences Committee for Remediation of Buried Tank Waste analyzing radioactive and hazardous waste clean-up procedures at Federal Facilities from 1994 to 2000. He also served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee assessing the performance of surface and sub-surface Engineered Barriers at hazardous & non-hazardous landfills. He has published for over ten-years a quarterly column for the Northwest Public Power association which is comprised of over two hundred electric utilities on environmental issues impacting the electric utility industry. He is on the board of advisors of the Washington Legal Foundation.
