Given the breadth of the resources and uses that can be impacted by significant discharges of chemicals and hazardous substances into a surface water body, NRD claims are often the most significant, complex and costly environmental claims. Because the attorneyss at Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC are at the forefront of NRD litigation and related matters, we are able to add efficiencies and reduce costs through an understanding of and appreciation for the critical legal, scientific, and economic factors that must be addressed to effectively prosecute or defend against such claims.
Our attorneys have researched, analyzed and become acutely familiar with the issues and expert witness disciplines related to determining baseline, as well as other important legal issues associated with NRD, such as preemption, causation, retroactivity, statutes of limitation, scope of trusteeship and resource management, and the many issues impacting overlapping trusteeship.
Through our representation of both trustees and private sector clients, Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC regularly guides our clients and their technical, economic, regulatory, and ecological expert witnesses at a very high level. Our attorneys have worked as both plaintiff and defendant with expert witnesses in all facets of NRD, including baseline, fate and transport, wildlife receptors, bioaccumulation, source identification, hydrology and hydrodynamics, toxicology, chemical fingerprinting, economic impacts and quantification of damages, restoration impacts, and various other disciplines involved in NRDA.
