Michelle Ulick Rosenthal

Practice Areas

Michelle Ulick Rosenthal has more than 20 years of experience working on environmental, natural resources, real estate, and regulatory matters involving contaminated real property, environmental defense, and regulatory and permitting compliance. She represents a wide range of commercial, industrial, and maritime clients, from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and individual property owners.

She regularly works on complex, multi-party cases involving contaminated sites arising under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and its state law equivalents across the nation. She represents clients in private, non-judicial liability allocations and natural resource damage claims involving multimillion dollar disputes and works collaboratively with other parties and agency officials to move the process forward while advancing her clients’ interests. Michelle also represents parties in contribution and cost recovery actions, negotiates administrative orders, consent decrees, and settlements with federal and state agencies, facilitates environmental inspections and audits, responds to notices of violation, and counsels clients on environmental and regulatory compliance issues to minimize risk. She also assists clients with solid waste management issues arising under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), including corrective actions, consent orders, financial assurance, and the cost-effective redevelopment of Brownfields properties with complex legal and technical challenges