environmental

Members of Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP have successful litigated environmental cases, including CERCLA trials, mass toxic tort cases and state regulatory proceedings. For example, the firm currently represents the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with respect to their Clean Air Action Plan.

Typically environmental litigation is tied to other corporate strategic plans, and litigation strategies must be built to be consistent with those plans. Does a company want to sue a customer for CERCLA contribution? How will media attention play into a litigation strategy?

Unfortunately, environmental litigation is typically burdened by massive documentation, a large number of competing interests, a legacy of long procedures and a lack of creative thinking among the participants. We have championed a number of creative solutions to expedite the resolution of environmental disputes in a manner most advantageous to our clients. We build our own allocation models using a variety of probability analyses and variables. We are skilled in building large electronic databases of information tied to graphical data to help visually present a case to a jury, a court, a mediator or opposing counsel.

We believe that an effective resolution of an environmental action requires educating opposing counsel and their experts about the facts that are determinative of the scope of any responsibility. We make extensive use of stipulations and pretrial procedures to streamline a matter to only those issues actually in dispute.

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