Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP

About this office:

Plews Shadley Racher & Braun has long been a leader in environmental law, insurance coverage and other complex litigation. The firm serves clients from two offices in Indiana and has one of the largest environmental law and insurance coverage practices in the Midwest. Its attorneys have substantial experience in a wide range of environmental matters including the prosecution and defense of claims involving CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Air and Water Acts, UST remediation and cost recovery, toxic torts, environmental property damage claims and governmental enforcement actions of all kinds. Its attorneys maintain a substantial practice representing policyholders in actions to recover insurance dollars, particularly for claims concerning environmental liabilities. The firm has actively participated in Superfund cases in a number of states and has organized committees to represent various interest groups in such efforts. It also advises clients on environmental and other issues in real estate and business transactions, including wetlands and brownfields development, in conducting environmental due diligence and audit work, in undertaking voluntary cleanups and cost recovery claims, in developing programs for limiting liability exposure, and in drafting and monitoring legislation and rules. The firm also represents clients in a variety of other complicated legal matters such as products liability, class action and patent and trademark cases.

Environmental Litigation, Environmental Insurance Coverage, Environmental Cost Recovery, Complex Commercial Litigation, Environmental Corporate and Transaction Law, Environmental Administrative Law, Environmental Permitting, Superfund, Solid and Hazardous Waste, Underground Storage Tanks, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Environmental Business Law, Intellectual Property, Commercial Real Estate and Land Use, Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act.

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