Overview
Chase Whiting’s work focuses on protecting people by safeguarding our environment and climate today and for future generations. He has held polluters accountable across trial, appellate, and regulatory bodies by grounding his practice in strategic planning, hard work, and creative problem solving.
Chase teaches energy law as an Adjunct Professor at the Vermont Law and Graduate School, and previously taught Earth sciences as a public middle school teacher on the México-U.S. border. Before joining Sher Edling, Chase practiced energy and climate change law with the Conservation Law Foundation, and litigated plaintiff matters in private practice.
Chase clerked at the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He was also a Law Clerk in the Executive Office of the President during the Barack Obama Administration.
Chase worked full-time during law school, attending classes in the evenings. During that time, he also served as Editor in Chief of the American Criminal Law Review and worked on Georgetown Law Journal’s Annual Review of Criminal Procedure.
Representative Matters
- Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. et al., No. PC-2018-4716 (Providence/Newport Counties, R.I.)
- Maine v. BP P.L.C. et al., No. CV-24-442 (Cumberland County, Maine)
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
- University of Vermont, B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
- California
- Vermont
- Maine (pending, not yet admitted)
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Connecticut, Maryland, and Vermont