The firm is very proud of our very own Travis Moore Hearne who is a recent outstanding graduate of the Stetson University College of Law Environmental Concentration. He was also awarded the 2019 Outstanding Local Government Law School Student Award by the City, County and Local Government Section of the Florida Bar. His paper From Category 4(b) to Category 2: How Local Stakeholders in the Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium Battled Nutrient Pollution to Make the Bay Better on the Tampa Bay Nitrogen Consortium appears in the Stetson Law Review’s 2019 Local Government Edition. He also authored a paper on Clean Water Act Section 404 delegation to the State of Florida and closely follows recent developments in environmental law. He was a member of Stetson’s Moot Court Team and competed twice at Pace University’s National Environmental Moot Court Competition in 2018 and 2019. He also sat as a member of the Stetson Law Review’s 2019 Publication Committee and was a Biodiversity Fellow at Stetson’s Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy in 2018 and 2019, where he assisted in researching and editing an Amicus brief filed in the Southern District of New York on behalf of the Society of Wetland Scientists in WOTUS litigation. He will practice environmental law at Mechanik Nuccio Hearne & Wester upon his admission to the Florida Bar.