Ian Paul Fisher
Washington University in St. Louis (B.A. 2011, College Honors); Columbia Law School (J.D. 2014, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar).
Admitted to the Bar: Colorado (2014), Illinois (2018, inactive), District of Columbia (2019), Michigan (2022), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2015), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2020), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois General Bar (2017), U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois (2017), and U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (2022).
Mr. Fisher assists clients in environmental, natural resources, administrative, and federal Indian law matters. Working with tribal and federal agencies, Mr. Fisher helps tribes develop, implement, and update environmental laws, such as water and air permitting programs, water quality standards and certification procedures, air emission standards, and waste regulations. He also helps tribes seek cleanup of contaminated sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and tribal laws.
Mr. Fisher has represented tribes and environmental organizations in litigation before administrative bodies, federal district court, and appellate courts, focused on environmental, natural resources, and jurisdictional issues. Mr. Fisher has experience enforcing the Clean Air Act through its citizen-suit provision and seeking the abatement of a public nuisance at the district court level, including navigating discovery, settlement negotiations, trial, and post-trial briefing on behalf of his clients.
Prior to private practice, Mr. Fisher was a Frederick A.O. Schwarz Litigation Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Staff Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a Legal Fellow at the Native American Rights Fund.