Gary Davis has been practicing environmental law since 1983 when he opened his first law office in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since then his firm has represented community groups, environmental organizations, state and local governments, and individual clients throughout the Southeast. In the 1980s the firm litigated precedent-setting cases involving hazardous waste disposal and water pollution on behalf of the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation (LEAF). In the 1990s the firm represented victims of chemical pollution and fought permits for garbage dumps and hazardous waste treatment plants. In 2002 Mr. Davis focused for three years on protecting wetlands and restoring the Everglades in Southwest Florida. He moved his office to Hot Springs, North Carolina, in 2005, a small mountain village northwest of Asheville near the Tennessee border. The office is in an old rock house one block from the Appalachian Trail, one block from the wild and scenic French Broad River, and one block from the Hot Springs Spa, location of an historic hot springs resort in the 1800’s.
