Contact: Robert Falk
Morrison & Foerster maintains a comprehensive environmental and consumer products law practice, supported by more than 35
attorneys and professional analysts with years of experience in all facets of these specialized fields, many of whom were
former state and federal regulators and prosecutors. Michele Corash, one of the firm's senior environmental law partners,
has been included in the Daily Journal's annual list of California's Top 50 Women litigators every year since its inception
and she was named in International Finance Review's Best of the Best in Environmental Law in 2003.
The firm represent clients in a wide range of matters involving environmental and consumer product law, including:
- Consumer product regulation and litigation, including claims brought under California's Business & Professions Code § 17200,
Consumer Legal Remedies Act, and Proposition 65;
- Environmental permitting and compliance counseling;
- Environmental, product liability, and toxic tort litigation, including CERCLA/Superfund cost recovery, citizen suits, and
representative/class actions.
The firm has advised and represented clients on matters under all relevant U.S. laws and their state equivalents, including
the Endangered Species Act, Superfund (CERCLA), the Clean Air and Water Acts, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Coastal Zone Management Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The firm also has unparalleled
experience with several unique environmental statutes, including California's Proposition 65, environmental quality act (CEQA),
and endangered species act (CESA).
