OFFICE LOCATIONS
Atlanta
CARVALHO & ASSOCIATES, P.C.
707 Whitlock Avenue, SW
Suite E-19
Marietta, Georgia 30064
Attn: Michael P. Carvalho, Esq.
Tel: (678) 354-0066
Fax: (678) 354-0667
Detroit - North
950 West University Dr.,Ste 102
Rochester, MI 48307
Attn: Mark Crane, Esq.
Tel: (248) 656-9600
Fax: (248) 656-9603
Detroit - East
14950 E. Jefferson, Suite 170
Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230
Attn: Timothy A. Dinan, Esq.
Tel: (313) 821-5904
Fax: (313) 884-4366
Washington, D.C.
1666 K Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, D.C.
Attn: George Manina, Esq.
Tel: (202) 887-1491
Fax: (202) 466-2198
PRACTICE AREAS
The attorneys at Carvalho & Associates, P.C., serve Marietta, Georgia, and throughout Georgia, including Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Cumming, Columbus, Savannah, Dalton, Gainesville, Rome, Athens, Dublin, Brunswick, Cobb County, Fulton County, Richmond County, Bibb County, Muscogee County, Chatham County, Forsyth County, Dekalb County and Hall County.
RESOURCES
About Michael P. Carvalho, Esq.
Mr. Carvalho received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a concentration in Environmental Science and Policy. From 1986 through 1994, he worked as a consulting environmental specialist for a national environmental consulting firm, and later served as President and CEO of Site Assessment Specialists, Inc., a company he founded, providing assessment, and CERCLA/SARA litigation support services for cost allocation and cost recovery matters, environmental risk management and remediation services. His environmental consulting clients included Waste Management, Inc., and General Motors Corporation, in addition to various regional and national lenders.
He attended law school (nights) and received his Juris Doctor from Michigan State University Law School in 1994. Later that year, he sold his company to a publicly held firm and entered the full-time practice of law. He has since served as in-house environmental counsel to First Chicago-NBD Bank (now J.P. Morgan) and General Motors Corporation prior to relocating to Washington D.C. While in Washington, D.C., Mr. Carvalho was a partner with the firm of O’Connor & Hannan, LLP where he represented clients in environmental transactional matters throughout the continental United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Caribbean, Mexico, France, and Brazil.
Mr. Carvalho relocated to Georgia in 2001 to assist a Fortune 100 client in the connection with a national expansion, acquisition and development of retail “Big-Box” stores on environmentally impaired properties. Mr. Carvalho’s current and past clients include XL Environmental Insurance Co., Calpine Energy Corporation, Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., General Motors Corporation, U.S. Restaurant Properties, Inc., and Entertainment Publishing Co., among others. Mr. Carvalho has represented businesses and individuals in connection with CERCLA/SARA actions (defense, cost recovery, and cost allocation), Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and related matters. In 2008, he successfully negotiated the first Consent Order under Section 113 of the Clean Air Act in EPA history.
Mr. Carvalho is member of the State Bars of Michigan, Georgia, and the District of Columbia. He is admitted to practice before the Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Supreme Court, Georgia Court of Appeals, and Georgia Supreme Court. He is also admitted to the U.S. District Courts in Georgia and Michigan, the U.S Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Carvalho is also a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Cobb County Trial Lawyers, and the Environmental Section of the State Bar of Georgia, where he has presented several papers on state and federal environmental regulation, litigation and related matters. He regularly represents clients in mediation and arbitration matters. Mr. Carvalho is an active member of the National Brownfields Association.
Mr. Carvalho’s teaching and lecture credits include serving as an Instructor at Wayne State University’s Graduate School of Chemical Engineering, Georgia State University Law School and Emory University School of Public Health on matters of environmental law and science. He routinely provides national training in Phase I & II Environmental Site Assessments, All Appropriate Inquiry under federal Brownfields Law, CERCLA/SARA, CWA, RCRA, CAA, TSCA and related regulatory matters. He also serves on the Board of Editors for ICSC’s “Retail Law Strategist”, and was recently appointed to the National Board of Directors of the EnvironMentors Project of the National Council for Science and Environment (NCSE).
Mr. Carvalho is an avid scuba diver, a certified Divemaster and Rescue Diver, and teaches scuba diving to adults and children. He is an experienced sailor and has sailed throughout New England, the Great Lakes, Florida, the Caribbean, and the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. Mike’s pro bono interests include the Washington D.C.-based EnvironMentors Program where he sponsors a scholarship for inner-city high school students interested in environmental careers, Wheeler High School’s Magnet Mentor Program where he serves as a Mentor, and Hospice. He is married and has two children.
