ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Hermes, Netburn, O’Connor & Spearing P.C. offers a full range of environmental legal services.  The firm’s practice in this area includes representing clients in state and federal Superfund enforcement actions, prosecuting and defending private environmental response cost recovery actions and advising clients in a wide range of environmental regulatory and permitting matters and in connection with the redevelopment of contaminated properties.  Our attorneys also represent and advise environmental engineers and other environmental professionals in connection with claims and liabilities arising out of their professional services.

Environmental laws, with their complex regulatory compliance requirements and often strict, retroactive and joint and several liability provisions, present many challenges to today’s business community.  In advising our clients in this area, whether dealing with litigation decisions in a cost recovery suit or formulating regulatory compliance strategies and performing a cleanup with defined or limited resources, we endeavor to develop and carry out strategies that fit with our clients’ business needs.