Drawing upon experts from within the firm’s product liability and broader environmental offering, McGuireWoods LLP is well-positioned to represent clients facing down high-profile private mass tort litigation, as well as to advise on accompanying regulatory issues and governmental investigations and enforcement. The firm is also adept at providing a crisis management service in the aftermath of environmental accidents, quickly mobilizing resources to deal with often multi-pronged state and federal regulatory inquiries, as well as ensuing private litigation which invariably occurs in its wake. Atlanta-based Adam Sowatzka excels in this kind of circumstance and has expertise handling environmental matters in all media, including air, water, and waste. Los Angeles-based Gregory Evans, who co-heads the environmental litigation practice alongside Eugene Mathews in Richmond, has excellent trial credentials, including securing recent federal court successes which have helped clarify and affirm key aspects in the US federal environmental laws promoting early cleanup of the environment.
Key clients
- Asarco LLC
- Inframark LLC
- Verizon
- Wacker Polysilicon North America, Inc.
Work highlights
- Achieved several groundbreaking federal court environmental trial victories that clarify and affirm key aspects in the United States Federal environmental laws promoting early cleanup of the environment.
- Representing Inframark against allegations made by the City of Houston, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the EPA that it discharged raw sewage into a local waterway and that it falsified laboratory and other reports to suggest that the discharges were in compliance with State permits and the Texas Water Code, when in fact they were not.
- Representing Wacker Polysilicon North America in investigations made by various regulatory bodies including the EPA following the death of one worker and three others who were seriously injured after they were exposed to a release of hydrochloric acid during a maintenance activity at the Wacker facility in Charleston, Tennessee.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Benjamin Hatch, Justin Howard, Samuel Tarry, Gregory Hinojosa Evans, Eugene Mathews