Stephen R. Verbit, P.A.
Fort Lauderdale - Miami - Pembroke Pines - West Palm Beach
9900 Stirling Road, Suite 200A
Cooper City, Florida 33024
Telephone: (954) 965-8350
Fax: (954) 241-6947
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Environmental Law
The firm's environmental law practice includes a broad mix of litigation and transactional counseling, including:
1. Prosecuting and defending environmental cost recovery claims against government agencies and private parties in actions under the Federal Superfund law (CERCLA) and its state counterparts.
2. Representing clients in judicial and administrative proceedings involving complex regulatory issues, including those under CERCLA, the Federal Resource Recovery and Conservation Act (RCRA), the Federal Clean Water Act, as well as State and County regulatory programs relating to wetlands development and mitigation requirements, abandoned storage tanks, petroleum and other hazardous chemical discharges, dry cleaning solvents, endangered species, landfills, and Everglades restoration programs.
3. Defense of environmental citizen suits under RCRA and the Clean Water Act.
4. Advising clients on land use or zoning, permitting and other regulatory authorizations needed for developments with wetland, coastal, and regional impacts.
5. Administrative and judicial challenges to proposed and existing environmental agency rules, policies, or orders.
6. Advising clients about derivative liability of parent corporations, subsidiaries, divisions, directors, officers, and successors, helping them to avoid, minimize, or eliminate exposure to potential environmental liability.
7. Advising clients on the impact of proposed environmental legislation and regulations affecting their industry or business.
8. Defense of professional malpractice claims against environmental consultants.
9. Advising clients regarding the transfer, allocation, or indemnification from potential environmental liability in various types of transactions.
10. Advising clients in transactional due diligence matters pertaining to potential environmental liability, including Phase I and II environmental auditing.
