C. Gregory Rogers, J.D., CPA
Of Counsel
Guida, Slavich & Flores, P.C.
President and Founder
Advanced Environmental Dimensions, LLC
Greg Rogers is an attorney with Guida, Slavich & Flores, P.C., a Dallas law firm focusing on environmental legal matters. He advises public and non-public companies on the purchase, sale, financing, and redevelopment of contaminated real estate.
He earned his law degree in 1987 from Southern Methodist University School of Law as a Hatton W. Summers Scholar. While in law school, he was a Law Review Editor, member of the Order of the Coif, and Barristers President.
Mr. Rogers received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from the University of Oklahoma in 1983.
Mr. Rogers' legal practice currently focuses on environmental risk management in industrial operations and business transactions, including brownfield acquisition and redevelopment activities, pre-acquisition due diligence, environmental risk transfer, municipal setting designations, and site cleanups under the Texas voluntary cleanup program.
Mr. Rogers is a member of the Editorial Board of Brownfield News, a publication of the National Brownfield Association, and a contributing author to LexisNexis' Brownfields Law & Practice.
Mr. Rogers is an active member of the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Environmental Disclosures and was one of 30 national experts who participated in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation and report to Congress on Environmental Disclosures (July 2004).
Mr. Rogers is also President and founder of Advanced Environmental Dimensions, LLC, a management consulting and education firm specializing in environmental financial reporting and related business strategies.
Mr. Rogers is a non-practicing CPA and former financial auditor with Arthur Andersen & Co. He began his legal career with two national law firms in Washington, D.C. and Dallas as a corporate securities lawyer, where he became versed in the U.S. federal securities laws and SEC regulations. After gaining experience in environmental law, he left legal practice for several years to work with General Motors Corp. and other clients on the reengineering of various environmental and financial business processes.
Following the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Mr. Rogers drew upon his background in accounting, law, and consulting to analyze the environmental-related accounting, legal, and management implications of that far-reaching legislation. He has since written numerous articles on various aspects of environmental financial reporting and related matters that have appeared in publications sponsored by the National Association of Corporate Directors, the American Bar Association, Financial Executives International, the Risk and Insurance Management Society, and the National Brownfields Association. Below is a representative sampling of articles by Mr. Rogers that can be read online:
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Fiscal Control over Physical Controls
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Pollution Costs Return to Balance Sheets
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Point/Counterpoint: Shaking off the Mothballs
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The Fruits of Non-Disclosure
Brownfield News
Mr. Rogers is also the author of Financial Reporting of Environmental Liabilities and Risks after Sarbanes-Oxley.