Winner & Associates is experienced in environmental law before both federal and state agencies and in federal and state courts. Russ has taught Environmental Law at Lewis & Clark Law School, in Portland, Oregon, which has one of the most respected programs in Environmental Law in the country. He also has taught seminars on environmental law since coming to Alaska. Winner & Associates has experience in environmental litigation. For example, the firm negotiated a settlement for $4.5 million in a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the residents of an Alaska Native village whose water system was contaminated by the local school district.