Jeff has devoted the past four decades to the field of environmental law, litigating many of the legal issues that govern today’s practice and drafting the original version of agreements widely used today in CERCLA proceedings. A nationally recognized figure in superfund, natural resource damage, and toxic tort litigation, Jeff has focused on complex, multiparty environmental cases since he began in private practice. He is a first chair litigator who has also mediated environmental disputes and served as a mediator himself.

Jeff represents waste management firms, electric utilities, consumer product manufacturers, and chemical and paper companies.

After serving as an editor of Harvard's first Environmental Law Review in 1977, he went on to clerk for US District Judge John H. Pratt in 1978, and has been in private practice in Washington, DC since 1979.  He has litigated cases in trial and appellate courts throughout the United States and in Puerto Rico.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Harvard Law School, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 1978

BA, Government, Lawrence University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1974

• Represented companies in more than 100 cases brought under the Federal Superfund statute.
• Thirty-two years of experience litigating cases involving claims under the major federal environmental statutes, including CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and TSCA.
• Counseled corporate clients on requirements for compliance with state and federal environmental laws and regulations.
• Provides advice to companies seeking to minimize the environmental liabilities associated with corporate acquisitions and property purchases.
• Extensive experience in the filing of comments in EPA rulemaking proceedings and in the prosecution of challenges to EPA rules before the federal district courts and federal courts of appeals.
• Serves as common counsel to represent industry groups in the prosecution and also in the defense of contribution and cost recovery claims for waste site cleanup costs.
• Defended numerous federal court and state court lawsuits throughout the United States involving toxic tort claims for personal injury and property damage.

• Member, American Bar Association

• 2017 Chambers USA Environment Law Firm of the Year