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John Hodges is an accomplished attorney in the areas of energy, environmental law, product safety, and international trade.
John regularly counsels clients on energy efficiency, environment, product safety, products liability, standards, international trade, advertising, and corporate issues. He represents a broad range of consumer and industrial products manufacturers and service providers in federal and state regulatory, litigation, and legislative proceedings. He has extensive experience in representing the interests of trade associations.
John has litigated on a broad variety of complex issues, including energy efficiency, environment, preemption, and liability of foreign states and their instrumentalities under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA).
He has extensive experience concerning energy efficiency of appliances and other products, including standards; testing and labeling; legislation; rulemaking before the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), ENERGY STAR, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); litigation in federal and state courts; and enforcement, exception, and waiver proceedings. He also has dealt with product safety, labeling, and marketing claims before the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the FTC.
John represents clients before numerous governmental agencies, including the DOE, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (including ENERGY STAR), the U.S. Departments of Commerce (DOC), Agriculture (USDA), Homeland Security (DHS), Interior (DOI), Labor (DOL), Justice (DOJ), State (DOS), and Transportation (DOT), the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), the International Trade Administration (ITA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as well as before the National Advertising Division (NAD). He also represents trade associations on corporate governance, antitrust compliance, government affairs, and litigation.
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Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP
They say it’s better to be lucky than good. But smart lawyering is the next best thing to dumb luck. Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis is a boutique firm that focuses on solving serious legal problems that call for seasoned judgment and experience. Our lawyers have the skills, experience, creativity, and concentrated know-how to solve complex legal problems in a way that makes business sense and mitigates risk. As a result, we have earned a first-class reputation for excellence in telecom and technology regulation, trial and appellate litigation, legal and governmental ethics, energy, national security, and privacy. We strive to represent our clients with unsurpassed effectiveness and professionalism. Toward that end, we hire the most talented lawyers we can find, and we maintain a collegial, high-autonomy working environment that maximizes the value of sound judgment among extremely talented peers. We aspire to attract the most challenging matters, because that is when we are at our best. An important measure of our success is that clients who come to us with emergency problems often continue to rely on us after the emergency is over, to help them navigate even ordinary risks. We can do this very efficiently, without the indolence or bloat found at many larger firms.