Risk management - coordination of compliance issues for property owners and businesses.

Defense of claims waste recycling facilities and landfills.

Extensive experience in working with governmental agencies and environmental consultants to reduce scope and cost of remediation.

Cases have involved wrongful death and catastrophic injuries including burns, brain damage, severed limbs and digits, disfigurement, and neurological and psychological damage.

Extensive experience consulting with manufacturers and distributors regarding risk management issues, sufficiency of safety procedures and adequacy of warnings.

Representative product cases have included those involving: power tools, tires, infant/children's products, medical devices, bicycle helmets, starter sprays and boom lifts.

Experience in dealing with most of the active Proposition 65 "enforcers" in California.

Occupational as well as consumer exposures.

Extensive experience in risk management and loss prevention relating to Proposition 65 Compliance.

Mold, asbestos, benzene, and other chemical exposures in residential and commercial settings.

Cases involving exposure to contaminated soil, underground storage tank leaks, and emissions from neighboring properties.

Extensive experience working with and managing costs relating to joint defense groups.

Retention and Handling of Environmental Experts

Lead Exposures

Evidence of Exposure: Evolving Standards of Proof in Benzene Litigation — Mealey’s Litigation Report: Benzene, Vol. 1, #2 (July 2006)

Handling Occupational Exposure Cases

Controlling Costs in Environmental Litigation

Strategies for Handling Benzene Litigation

Selection and Management of Experts in Environmental Litigation

Toxic Mold Claims

Attacking Plaintiff's Class Action Case

Allocation Strategies and in Multi-Party Environmental Litigation

Defense of Developers in Environmental Cases

Conflicts of Interest and the Right to Independent Counsel - Defense Research Institute (1997)

The Clean Water Act

Emerging Private Rights Under RCRA - Environmental Claims Journal, Vol. 7, Issue 4 (Summer 1995)

Blueprint for the Critical Review of Technical Environmental Reports - Environmental Claims Journal, Volume 6, Issue 2 (Winter 1993)

The Ten Commandments of Environmental Litigation Cost Management - Environmental Claims Journal, Volume 4, Issue 4 (1992)