Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Emily Tabak is a partner in the Salt Lake City office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Emily identifies strategic solutions in environmental regulatory compliance, specializing in waste and chemicals management, contamination issues and emerging contaminants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), multi-facility audit management and disclosures, and enforcement response.

Emily has extensive experience helping clients navigate regulatory, permitting, and liability issues involving solid and hazardous waste, chemicals, site remediation, water quality, and air quality. She counsels clients managing complex audit and compliance processes, negotiates civil and criminal enforcement actions, and prepares submissions including reporting and disclosures to federal and state authorities and insurers. Emily also regularly advises clients involved in multiple industry sectors, including energy and resources, mining, oil and gas, aggregates, and electric power, focusing on liability and compliance related to changing federal and state environmental rulemaking, requirements and developments. Her experience includes regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), and other statutory schemes.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Emily practiced at Holland & Hart LLP in Salt Lake City, and at K&L Gates LLP and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in the New York metropolitan area, advising clients on a range of environmental compliance issues, as well as assisting with litigation in a high-profile insider trading trial, bankruptcy proceedings, and regulatory investigations. Emily also served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Robert Kirsch on The Superior Court of New Jersey.