Environmental Litigation

Numerous laws exist in the United States to protect the natural environment and other environments, including the control of pollution and the protection of both human and other life forms? health and well-being. Environmental litigation is often necessary when one party feels protection of one or more of those areas are at risk. Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P. (SHB) has successfully handled toxic tort cases and environmental litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as before administrative tribunals in more than a dozen states.

Also known as the SHB Environmental Law Practice, our experienced team of attorneys offers cutting-edge environmental litigation and compliance expertise relevant to all aspects of federal environmental, transportation, and health and safety statutes. In today?s environmentally conscious world, it is an ongoing challenge to uphold today?s many environmental laws. But SHB?s successful track record displays our unique strengths in strategic problem solving and diligence. We put our extensive experience to good use as we tackle some of the most challenging environmental law issues of the day.

Environmental litigation typically causes one or both sides of a case to lose income because their business(es) is unable to operate as usual during litigation. We are sensitive to lost time and lost wages, so we make every effort to resolve issues as quickly as possible to limit the losses of everyone involved.

We have represented clients from a myriad of industries in environmental litigation cases. Our state-of-the-art case management technology enables us to be incredibly cost-efficient with clients that have national environmental concerns. By consolidating the efforts of outside counsel and developing a Web-based extranet to house case information, we offer substantial reductions in overall legal fees; greater case management efficiency; enhanced data for financial reserves; and consistent representation across numerous venues.

As in all our areas of our expertise, we believe in education, so we act as a resource for our clients. The SHB Environmental Law Practice emphasizes the importance of taking preventive measures to avoid expensive environmental litigation. We are pleased to offer compliance counseling under statutes such as CERCLA, RCRA, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Oil Pollution Act, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, and the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. We regularly advise clients with regard to environmental risk; permitting requirements; property transfers, site development and cleanup; regulatory standards; and government enforcement actions. To keep companies up-to-date on these issues, we publish a weekly newsletter that analyzes industry trends and reports on relevant legislative and regulatory developments, key judicial decisions and the latest scientific literature. Our proactive approach adds to our clients? confidence in our abilities to represent them capably and professionally.

Nearly 30 attorneys in our firm are capable of working with you on your environmental litigation case. Contact us today, and we will match you with the attorney that is best suited to find your solution.