Our environmental litigation team helps clients avert or successfully defend toxic tort litigation. Our reservoir of experience covers all environmental media (air, groundwater, surface water, waste, and products or materials in commerce). Our toxic tort litigators have proffered, deposed, and debunked many of the field's leading experts in a multitude of scientific and other expert disciplines. We have defeated class certification in federal and state cases across the US. Our experience enables us to counsel clients on ways to minimize exposure after liability-creating conduct has occurred, but before litigation is initiated. We help clients analyze and assess exposure; consider proactive measures; unify, simplify, and ensure the accuracy of the company's public "voice"; get on top of the scientific and technical issues; and develop, if need be, an integrated, coherent litigation strategy.
Our toxic tort team has been recognized among the strongest anywhere, and several of our lawyers have been singled out for high commendation in the fields of toxic tort, class action, and product liability defense. Outside of our environmental toxic tort litigators, the firm has a deep bench of lawyers who have been lead or national counsel to numerous companies in major mass tort litigations, including Wyeth (formerly American Home Products), Philip Morris USA and its parent Altria, Atlantic Richfield Company, The Red Cross, Motorola, and Hoffmann-LaRoche.