James L. Noles, Jr.
About Jim
Originally one of Barze Taylor Noles Lowther LLC’s founding partners, Jim Noles assumed a position as Of Counsel with the firm in 2025, after accepting a position as a Professor of Practice with Auburn University’s College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment. In the college, Jim now teaches a number of courses and is responsible for developing its Environmental Law minor.
Throughout his career, Jim’s expertise and experience in the law has focused on teaming with clients to help them achieve their individual, corporate, or governmental goals and objectives while complying with the increasingly complex and challenging requirements of modern-day environmental law and regulation.
Over the course of a 27-year law practice, Jim has counseled and assisted clients on issues arising from brownfields redevelopment, environmental due diligence, landfill siting, environmental justice, the Endangered Species Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), wetlands permitting, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as well as handling administrative appeals before the Alabama Environmental Management Commission. He was also one of the few lawyers in Alabama who has routinely handled matters arising under the National Historic Preservation Act and associated federal and state historical and cultural resource laws.
In his Of Counsel role, Jim continues, on a limited basis, to advise the firm and its clients with respect to environmental legal matters.