Petroleum Marketing Counseling and Litigation.

Geoff Schwartz Ken Tucker Claude Walker and our newest addition Dan Kuhn make up the firm's petroleum practice group. Our firm has represented the Florida Petroleum Marketers Association and many of its members for over 25 years. Petroleum marketing and its related businesses have their own set of unique challenges, many of which involve regulatory compliance. Over the years we have tailored the legal services we provide to help petroleum marketers successfully meet those challenges. We endeavor to provide a complete array of legal services to our petroleum clients. Our lawyers have been at the forefront of the development of Florida's petroleum cleanup programs. These programs have served as the model for other cleanup programs throughout the nation. Since the development of Florida's cleanup programs in 1986, we have represented petroleum marketers, property owners, insurance carriers, and environmental consultants in a wide range of matters involving contamination cleanup and reimbursement, including the development of all Florida Department of Environmental Protection rules implementing the contamination remediation programs. We have also worked closely with the Florida Department of Revenue in revising the fuel tax statutes and rules and the manner in which the fuel tax laws are administered. We regularly assist members of the petroleum industry in fuel tax and sales tax matters. Additionally, we have represented petroleum clients in a variety of regulatory matters before the Florida Department of Legal Affairs and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.