Robert Walsh
Robert C. Walsh, a former senior vice president of W.R Grace and Co., is charged, like all the remaining individual defendants in U.S. v. WR Grace, with conspiracy to pollute and defraud the federal government.
Walsh served as Grace’s senior vice president until 1994. Before that, he was the president of Grace’s Massachusetts-based construction projects division from 1982 to 1989, and then executive vice president of Grace Specialty Chemicals Co.
If found guilty of conspiracy, Walsh faces the possibility of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a $1 millon fine per violation for the organization.
The government accuses Walsh of knowing specifically what kinds of health problems workers in Libby and a processing plant in Ohio were experiencing, and not taking steps to prevent those problems.
From 1976 to 1990, the directors, officers and shareholders of Grace shared $140 million from profits made on products made with asbestos-contaminated vermiculite from the Libby mine.
— Carmen George
Attorneys for defendant Robert C. Walsh
Stephen R. Spivack
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Washington, DC.
Stephen R. Spivack is a trial lawyer who specializes in white-collar criminal defense. He brings a special awareness of the prosecution strategy of complex cases, having served as chief of the special prosecutions section of the U.S. Attorney’s office in the District of Columbia from 1983 to 1987 and as assistant U.S. attorney in that office from 1974 to 1987.
Spivack earned his JD from George Washington University in 1972, and his undergraduate degree from Temple University in 1968.
In U.S. v. W.R. Grace et al, Spivack is among the attorneys representing Robert Walsh, one of seven Grace executives indicted on federal conspiracy charges in February 2005. He faces no other charges in the case.
Walsh worked a variety of jobs for W.R. Grace or its subsidiaries from 1982 to 1994. He was president of the Construction Products Division, an executive vice president of Grace Specialty Chemicals Co.; and ultimately, he was senior vice-president of W.R.
Grace.
David E. Roth
Bradley Arant Boult Cumming
Birmingham, Ala.
David E. Roth practices environmental law and white-collar criminal defense.
Daniel P. Golden
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Washington, DC
Daniel P. Golden, 33, specializes in white-collar criminal defense. He received his JD from the University of Virginia in 2002 and his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1997.
Aimee Grmoljez
Browning, Kaleczyc, Berry and Hoven
Helena, Mont.
Aimee Grmoljez specializes in white-collar criminal defense as well as government affairs and litigation. She has been a partner at BKBH since 2001. Grmoljez obtained her bachelor’s degree in English from Boston College in 2004. Grmoljez served as Judge Donald Molloy’s law clerk in 1999 after receiving her JD from the University of Montana in 1998.
Catherine A. Laughner
Browning, Kaleczyc, Berry and Hoven
Helena, Mont.
Catherine Laughner is the managing partner in BKBH’s Bozeman office. She specializes in white collar criminal defense as well as defense work in environmental cases.
Prior to moving to Montana, Laughner worked for the Chevron Corporation from 1982 to 1989, where she handled environmental issues such as obtaining waste disposal permits. From 1979 to 1981 she was with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Salt Lake City, where she focused on air pollution. She received her law degree from the University of Houston.
– Josh Benham