Jessica Lee Reece is an associate in the Environmental Practice Group of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP. Her practice specializes in Environmental/Natural Resources Law and Sustainability Law.

Ms. Reece’s practice includes environmental, toxic tort, personal injury and other litigation in both state and federal court. Ms. Reece also counsels clients in connection with sustainability issues, ranging from alternative energy and green building contracts to advising on climate change regulations and available federal and state incentives.

Ms. Reece received her A.B.J. degree, cum laude, in Newspaper Journalism from the University of Georgia in 2003, where she was a Bernard Ramsey Honors Scholar. She earned her J.D. degree, with honors, in 2006, from Georgia State College of Law where she received Honors/Distinction in Litigation, was on the Moot Court Board, the Student Trial Lawyers Association and was a member of Phi Alpha Delta. While in law school, Ms. Reece clerked with Atlanta-based litigation firm, Casey Gilson P.C., assisting on cases involving toxic tort and business litigation, civil rights, and government liability. Prior to practicing law, Ms. Reece worked as an editorial coordinator and editor-in-chief of LOUNGE: Augusta magazine with Morris Communications Company, LLC in Augusta, Georgia.

Ms. Reece also serves as a Board member for Generation Green of the Georgia Conservancy and is a member of the Green Chamber of the South. She is also a member of, and provisional advisor for, the Junior League of Atlanta and serves on the advisory board for SGR’s “Trust the Leaders” magazine.

Ms. Reece actively authors a sustainability blog entitled “Life in the Green Lane” on Womenetics.com. Ms. Reece has also authored, or co-authored, the following recent publications:

• Fueling the Future: How the environment and the economy are benefi ting from federal investment in renewable energy, Trust the Leaders, Spring 2010, at 14.
• Wars Between the States in the 21st Century: Water Law in an Era of Scarcity, 10 Vt. Env. L. J. 2 (Winter 2009).
• Organic! Biodegradable! Environmentally-friendly!...None of the above, Green Guys Media, October 28, 2009. Available at: http://www.greenguysmedia.com/blog/
• The emerging carbon market: Benefits for Georgia’s forest industry and how to take advantage of them on the front-end, Georgia Forestry Today, March/April 2009.
• Are Foresters Ready for the BioFuels Industry?, Evergreen Magazine, March 23, 2009. Available at: http://evergreenmagazine.com/web/Are_Foresters_Ready_for_the_BioFuels_Industry_-v2.html
• The Practice of Sustainability Law, Environmental Law Society, Georgia State University (March 2009).
• Biofuels: New Markets, New Challenges, Georgia Forestry Today, November/December 2008, at 20.
• Corporate Sustainability and the Marketplace: Changing the Bottom Line, Trust the Leader, Summer 2008, at 14.
• The Green Guide to Pregnancy and Parenting, Preg nancy & Newborn, April 2008, at 68.
• A Plan to Have A Plan: Does the State Water Plan Hold Water?, Trust the Leader, Spring 2008, at 16.
• Sustainability: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Trust the Leader, Spring 2007, at 26.

Ms. Reece is a member of the Georgia Bar Association.