Toxic Tort Litigation

Our environmental and toxic tort practice includes trial and appellate litigation of agency enforcement cases, citizen suits, and challenges to agency actions under all of the major environmental laws, with a focus on claims for monetary damages, injunctive relief, response cost recovery, medical monitoring, and other claims involving contaminated sites and releases of hazardous substances. Our projects have included:

• Representing a major heavy equipment manufacturer in defending multiple class action lawsuits alleging neurological damage from exposure to welding fumes.
• Representing a city in Florida in litigation against a company whose improper disposal of spent solvents contaminated the city’s drinking water supply, recovering past and future cleanup costs in a four-week jury trial.
• Representing a major defense contractor in five consolidated class actions arising out of alleged contamination from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and resulting claims for personal injuries, property damage, natural resource damages, and other tort claims. In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, 894 F. Supp. 1436 (E.D. Wash. 1995).
• Defending a large airplane manufacturer in a toxic tort suit based on alleged contamination of groundwater.