Wednesday, Oct. 16 | Noon to 1 p.m. CST | Zoom ID:  977 5557 6923

During the second webinar, join environmental litigators and advocates in a discussion about how legal practitioners have litigated cases against industrial agriculture from North Carolina to Iowa.

Shannon Roesler, Moderator

Professor Roesler’s scholarship focuses on issues of environmental justice, environmental governance, climate change litigation, energy law and policy, and land use. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in edited volumes and law journals such as the Georgetown Law Journal, the Florida Law Review, and the U.C. Davis Law Review. She also currently serves on the board of the Environmental Law Collaborative.  

Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa Law in 2021, Professor Roesler was the Robert S. Kerr, Jr. Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Law at Oklahoma City University School of Law where she received the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2019. After law school, she clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and worked as a staff attorney and teaching fellow in the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center. She was also a visiting faculty member at the University of Kansas School of Law.  

John Lande, Panelist

John Lande is a shareholder with a civil litigation practice at the Dickinson Bradshaw Law Firm in Des Moines. He has experience with matters involving banking and financial regulation, cybersecurity, local government, and environmental claims. John represented the Des Moines Water Works in a lawsuit against drainage districts in Northwest Iowa over nitrate pollution.

Michael Schmidt, Panelist

Michael Schmidt joined the Council in 2019 and works across IEC's program areas. He most recently worked as a staff attorney for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, where he focused on clean water and mining issues. He previously worked for the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, a state-based nonprofit, where he engaged in legal, legislative, and policy advocacy on water quality issues. He has a law degree from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in political science from the University of Iowa.

Mona Lisa Wallace, Panelist

Mona Lisa Wallace is the founding partner of Wallace & Graham, P.A., located in Salisbury, N.C. Mona was awarded the STLA Tommy Malone Eagle Award in 2021 for her many years of incredible work in various areas of the law. She has been honored as American Trial Lawyer of the Year twice in the last 5 years and has won numerous other state and national awards. Her firm has successfully represented thousands of clients suffering from cancer and other diseases in N.C. and other states since 1981. W & G has additionally been involved in numerous significant environmental cases including the Duke Energy Coal Ash water contamination litigation and Swine Farm Litigation, both in N.C. W & G recently tried 5 federal trials in the Eastern District of N.C. in the swine farm cases and won what is believed to be the largest mass tort verdict in N.C. history, a jury verdict of $473.5 million. Also, recently, her partner Bill Graham and co-counsel obtained the largest N.C. asbestos wrongful death verdict believed obtained to date, $32.7 million dollars, affirmed on appeal. W & G currently represents a significant number of Camp Lejeune veterans and their families suffering from water contamination cancers and diseases and is also co-counsel for prominent law firms from across the country, in that litigation. Their firm is one of the leading firms in the US, litigating anti-trust and monopoly claims against the largest hospital chains in America.