Environmental Litigation Support Services
Environmental litigation support refers to activities necessary to prepare legal professionals to try a case, which can include document review, data collection, case preparation, development of courtroom exhibits, and environmental expert witness testimony. Litigation of environmental and health related impacts are historically costly, time consuming, and often based upon complex scientific and technical concepts. Successful environmental litigation support compiles the diverse and complex technical information into a coherent illustration that is understandable to a non-technical audience.
Environmental litigation support that can identify the essential environmental issues, anticipate opposing strategies, and coordinate the most suitable approaches and experts, will impart confidence in and credibility to legal arguments. Cox-Colvin & Associates has extensive experience in providing environmental litigation support and testifying in judicial and regulatory hearings, including the following:
- Toxic Torts
- drinking water
- residential soils
- river water and sediments
- ambient air
- mold
- Workplace Exposure
- asbestos
- manganese welding rods
- plastics and rubber manufacturing
- diesel and benzene exhaust
- Dose Reconstruction
- Cleanup Goals
- Risk Assessment Methodology
- Cost Recovery
- Residual Ecological Impacts
- New Industrial Facility Hearings
- landfills
- incinerators
- asphalt plants
- Environmental Geology
- contaminant migration
- groundwater flow
- hydrogeology
- Data Validation