Practice Description
Mr. Du Bey is Chair of the Environmental and Natural Resources Section and chair of the Tribal Practice Group. The practices are primarily in the areas of environmental regulation, water and natural resource law, Indian law, administrative law and inter-governmental negotiations. He counsels private and public sector clients in regulatory program development and compliance, environmental risk management, hazardous substance cleanup, Brownfield program development, natural resource damages, and enforcement and Tribal economic development. He served for four years as Assistant Regional Counsel for the Seattle office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Region 10) and in 1980 entered private practice. He is a member of the Bar in Massachusetts and Washington.

Professional Associations
& Publications
Vice Chair (Programs), Native American Resource Committee of the Environment, Energy and Resources Section of the American Bar Association (2006-07).
Member, Environmental and Land Use Law Section and Indian Law Section (Founder and First Chair) of the Washington State Bar Association (1985-07).
Associate Member, Washington Public Ports Association (1997-07).
Member, ABA-SONREEL Brownfields Task Force (1995-98); member, Environmental Law and Management Education Committee (1984-99); member, Washington Environmental Industries Association (1993-99), member, Department of Ecology Underground Storage Tank Advisory Committee (1989-91); member, U.S. EPA Pacific Northwest Hazardous Waste Advisory Council (1988-90).

Co-Author, "CERCLA and Transboundary Contamination in the Columbia River," published in Natural Resources & Environment, Volume 21, Number 1, Summer 2006, for the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources.
Co-Author, "Tribal Water Quality Standards", The Water Report, August 15, 2005.
Co-Author, "The Role of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Fighting to Protect and Clean-up the Boundary Waters of the United States: A Case Study of The Upper Columbia River and Lake Roosevelt Environment," Penn State Environmental Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2004).
Co-author, "Closing the Circle: Tribal Implementation of the Superfund Program in the Reservation Environment," Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law (1994).
Co-author, "The Assertion of Natural Resource Damage Claims by Indian Tribal Trustees," Environmental Claims Journal (1991).

From 1978 through 2000, Mr. Du Bey served as a member of the Adjunct Faculty to the University of Washington with the Institute for Environmental Studies, the Educational Outreach Program and the Graduate Environmental Management MBA Program at the Business School. He also served as Legal Advisor to the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Research Center (1997-02).

Civic Activities
Member, Board of Directors, Council House (HUD subsidized senior housing) (2007-08)
Chair, Legal Committee, Herzl-New Tamid Conservative Cong. (2003-06)
President, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Cong. (2000-02)
Member, Board of Directors, Mercer Island Boys & Girls Club (1993-00)
President, Lakeridge Heights Homeowners Association (1998-00)
Member, Board of Trustees and Member Issues Identification Committee, Washington Research Council (1997-99)
Secretary, Evergreen Chapter, 82nd Airborne Association (1990-92)
President, Congregation Beth Shalom (1985-87)

Education
LL.M. (Law and Marine Affairs), University of Washington School of Law, 1976
J.D., New England School of Law, 1975
B.B.A., University of Miami, 1968

Links to Published Articles
Authority Concerning Environmental Protection Regulations
by Richard A. Du Bey, Co-Chair, Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources

Waiver of Tribal Sovereign Immunity
by Richard A. Du Bey, Co-Chair, Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources

Colville Reservation Clean-Up (1.17 MB .pdf file)
by Richard A. Du Bey, Co-Chair, Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources
and Jennifer Sanscrainte