About the Firm
William D. Preston, P.A.'s statewide Florida practice has been focusing on environmental law, governmental law, policy, strategic planning and counseling for over 40 years. The firm has an emphasis on identifying and then resolving environmental regulatory issues related to permits, compliance (including agency enforcement actions), liabilities, property transactions, interpretations of statutes and rules, and client strategy development and implementation.
The firm has a broad perspective and extensive breadth of historical experience in interacting with Florida’s environmental regulatory agencies and personnel (in addition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) through effective and mutually respectful relationships. The firm has numerous contacts in both Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Headquarters offices (Tallahassee) and throughout all six District offices spanning Florida. In addition, the firm has numerous contacts with many consulting and engineering firms throughout Florida for the purposes of team building, as necessary, to address unique client needs.
Frequent close client communications and interactions, including status updates, create opportunities for alternative problem-solving approaches that foster satisfactory accomplishment of client goals and remedies. Sound leadership helps clients make the right decisions for themselves, their companies, or their shareholders
Personal Statement from Bill Preston
During my years of prior environmental law practice, I could formulate a long and diverse client list covering a wide range of environmental topics and issues. Each of them were important to me, and I worked very hard to provide counsel and help to achieve a result that satisfied each client’s need. That philosophy and focus hasn’t changed for me over the years. However, now as a solo practitioner, I often have clients who may be individuals or small businesses who feel trapped in a governmental regulatory maze that they don’t understand and who experience related stress and anxiety. Their worries and needs are as important to me as would be a key regulatory permit application or resolving an agency enforcement action for a Fortune 200 company. Being able to achieve a successful result for those smaller clients provides the same degree of satisfaction to me at this stage of my professional career. That is why all of my legal service projects are important to my law firm.
Bill Preston