Alba was created in 2004 by Michael Hill, who has been an environmental attorney since 1986, and simultaneously a licensed surplus lines broker since 2004. Prior to starting Alba, Michael served as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he received DOJ’s Awards for Outstanding Service and Special Achievement; as Partner in a large Washington, D.C. law firm, where his clients included TRC Companies (a pioneer of fixed-price cleanups and then the largest user of environmental insurance); and as Chairman of Marsh’s Environmental Practice (then the world’s largest broker of environmental insurance). Following his nomination by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, from 2010-2012 and while also co-managing Alba, Michael served as COO and General Counsel of the $773M Trust established by the U.S. and 15 State and Tribal Governments to remediate and reuse the 89 industrial properties left behind in the GM bankruptcy.

Michael graduated from Williams College where he majored in Political Economics with focus on Environmental Studies; he attended Vermont Law School for his first year of law school and graduated from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Michael is a member of the bar in New York, Vermont and Washington, D.C.

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