Clients rely on our environmental litigators for representation at the highest levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in administrative hearings and settlement negotiations across the U.S. and around the world.
We try cases throughout the United States for plaintiffs and defendants, and have litigated some of the most important environmental cases in the United States, from global climate change in the Southern District of New York to opacity claims under the Clean Air Act (CAA) in New Mexico, to personal injury claims involving electromagnetic fields in Georgia.
Our clients include consumer and industrial product manufacturers, individuals, railroads, local governments, transportation companies, electric utilities, and chemical manufacturers.
We have more than 20 litigators with a range of backgrounds practicing primarily in environmental litigation. Members of our firm include fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers, numerous former judicial clerks, and litigators with advanced degrees in science. These attorneys serve as trial counsel and regional counsel in stand-alone and mass tort liability claims and as counsel in coordinated class actions. Additionally, our professionals serve as coordinating counsel, supervising law firms in other states and other countries in the development of trial strategy and conducting mass settlement negotiations.
Our team has developed a deep understanding of air quality modeling, epidemiology, toxicology, hydrogeology, and a range of other scientific skills and areas that assist us in comprehensively representing our clients. We regularly file and defend challenges to expert testimony in Daubert and related hearings in state and federal courts. But while science and technology are important in environmental cases, we still believe the most important strategy is to communicate science and the law to judges, juries, and other decision-makers simply and effectively.
Our wide-ranging experience includes:
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