Robert Fox

Practice Areas

Corporate and Commercial Transactions; Corporate Compliance and Other Regulatory Programs; Emergency Planning and Response; Energy; Litigation; Site Development and Brownfield Redevelopment; Superfund and Site Remediation; Waste; and Water.

Career

Robb is the former managing partner of the firm and has a diverse practice involving compliance counseling, litigation and transactional work for clients in the waste, chemical manufacturing and development industries and on behalf of cities and municipalities. He is known nationally for his work under the federal Superfund law including handling many high profile Superfund matters such as the Keystone Landfill matter, and the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek sites. He regularly litigates Superfund issues of first impression at the trial and appellate levels in multiple jurisdictions.

Robb’s litigation experience extends to class action and toxic tort defense, trials and appeals before federal and state courts and administrative tribunals. He also represents local, regional and national clients in the environmental aspects of business transactions, ranging from redeveloping brownfields (he assisted in the drafting of the 2002 brownfields amendment to the federal Superfund law) to managing liabilities in the environmental acquisition and divestiture of multinational companies.

Professional Memberships

Admitted in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

Personal

Harvard Law School, J.D.;

University of Pennsylvania, B.A.