Lee C. Graves

Lee is the founder and CEO of the ELM Companies and Principal of Graves Law Offices, PC. Lee's legal and environmental practice involves strategic counseling in the areas of Environmental Liability Management (ELM), Energy and Utility Services, Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA), ecological risk assessment, and environmental due diligence. Mr. Graves founded ELM Companies in 1998 which provides utility outsource services, compliance services and IOT monitoring for energy, industrial and Cafe compliance. Lee has worked directly on many well-known environmental liability sites and projects including the Milltown Dam Superfund site litigation, Milltown, Montana; Commencement Bay Superfund Site, Tacoma, Washington; Waste Management, Inc. landfill-NRDA claim in Indiana; Blackbird Mine NRDA, UNOCAL diluent release in California; ARCO pipeline oil spill in Indiana; and Colonial Pipeline San Jac into River-NRDA. Prior to founding ELM, Lee was named partner of Campbell and Graves, PC an environmental law practice with office in Houston, San Francisco and Chicago. He also served for three years as Senior Attorney in the General Counsel's office of NOAA, Dept. of Commerce. Lee served as NOAA's lead attorney on the largest natural resource damage assessment litigation in the country, U.S. v. Montrose, et. al. Lee's early professional career was in investment banking where he analyzed investment opportunities which included land and corporate acquisition and divestiture while working for Michael K. Deaver, former deputy chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan in Washington, DC. Lee represented such clients as Mitsubishi, China Trust Bank and other foreign interests. Lee is a graduate of Creighton University, with a Juris Doctor (JD) and a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration in Finance. Lee currently serves as President of The Boys and Girls Club of Central IL, and previously Board Member of United Health Care of Iowa System, Methodist Hospital of Peoria, IL, Board Member of the Greater Peoria International Airport Authority, and Board Member of Peoria Zoological Society.