Environmental Law and Related Litigation and Counseling

Environmental Experience

Environmental Litigation: We combine our long history of litigation defense and success with targeted scientific, environmental, and regulatory experience to deliver results for our clients in some of the most complex types of environmental litigation.

Risk and Compliance Counseling: We provide clients across all industries with advice on legal compliance issues in connection with various federal, state and local requirements involving a wide range of environmental conditions and potential hazards. We also consult with municipalities, major developers and real estate owners at the pre-construction stage to assist them with the regulatory framework that will impact their proposed projects. We also assist clients with compliance assessments such as Environmental Health and Safety (“EHS”) audits.

Government Investigations: With decades of experience representing clients before administrative agencies, we are able to help our clients navigate and respond to various administrative investigations and whistleblower actions. Our ability to successfully advise clients is bolstered by the strong relationships that our firm maintains with a number of highly skilled experts in a variety of environmental fields.

Indemnification and Insurance Recovery: Our highly skilled team of commercial litigators assists clients in the formulation of defense strategies to maximize recovery through contractual indemnification obligations, applicable warranties and insurance provided by all available primary and excess policies, including any policies where our client is named as an additional insured. Our coverage litigators have decades of experience handling declaratory judgment actions involving many aspects of insurance coverage.

Why Choose LCBF

The firm has extensive experience handling numerous aspects of environmental claims, litigation and administrative compliance issues on behalf of a wide array of clients, including municipalities, railroads, commercial and residential property owners, managers, real estate developers and contractors.

We maintain strong relationships with a variety of seasoned experts in a broad range of environmental specialties. We also work with our clients to maximize recoveries and reimbursements through indemnification obligations and insurance coverage claims and litigation.

For example, we represented a municipality in a multi-party Clean Water Act lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York. We also represented a municipality in connection with its obligations to meet landfill disclosure requirements pursuant to a NYDEC Order on Consent. We have also handled numerous environmental claims asserted against non-governmental entities, such as commercial and residential property owners, managers, developers and contractors.