Greg A Christianson

Practice Areas

Greg has a proven track record representing clients in environmental litigation, with a particular focus on Superfund cost recovery, natural resource damage claims, toxic tort actions, and federal and state enforcement actions. Greg also achieves results for his clients using alternative dispute resolution methods, pursuing cost-effective, cooperative solutions with regulators, property owners, and potentially responsible parties to avoid litigation.

Greg represents private and public entities at sites throughout the country, including various federal and state Superfund sites. Greg advises both individual clients and joint-defense groups at a wide range of facilities, including sediment sites, mixed-use landfills, former mines, and other industrial operations. He has also pursued CERCLA, RCRA, and common-law claims through litigation and mediations, obtaining substantial funds for clients’ environmental cleanup work. In many cases, Greg has negotiated creative settlements, including multiparty federal and state consent decrees, and has defended settlements against third-party challenges at trial and appellate courts. Greg has significant experience working with experts in the technical aspects of litigation, including contaminant fate and transport, identification of potentially responsible parties, and the range of factors affecting multiparty cost allocation.

Greg’s work also includes defending clients in multiparty toxic tort actions for personal injury, medical monitoring, and property damage claims based on alleged groundwater contamination, surface-water releases, and air emissions.

Career

Co-chair, Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group

Education