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Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Ma

• Represent legal clients in varied environmental matters, including enforcement actions, clean-up cost recovery, compliance counseling, facility and infrastructure planning and permitting, and complex environmental litigation.• Manage case information, discovery, productions, drafting of pleadings, electronic case filing, deposition preparation, and trial support for CERCLA-related cases in Massachusetts Superior Court, United States District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.• Review and manage environmental due diligence materials for time-sensitive multi-property real estate transactions, including single deals covering more than 700 properties in multiple states.• Conduct electronic discovery and manage case information using litigation technology software such as Introspect and Concordance.• Conduct legal research on Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis databases.• Work directly with clients to research facility histories and environmental backgrounds to develop detailed time lines in support of litigation.• Act as in-house technical resource for preliminary interpretation of environmental reports, analytical data, and risk assessments.

Greater Boston Area

• Specialized in efficient off-site and on-site review of large volumes of documents using targeted approaches and litigation technology.• Streamlined record retention practices for Environmental Section, dramatically reducing the amount of paper files required to be sent to archives.• Developed training protocol for incoming Legal Assistants and Legal Specialists.• Worked with brokers to prepare document schedules and evaluate environmental histories in order to solicit bids for environmental insurance coverage.• Negotiated directly with consultants on behalf of clients to customize competitive bids for assessment and remediation projects.• Managed litigation information through use of optical character recognition electronic databases.

Woburn, Ma

• Cultivated and managed client relationships with developers, business owners, contractors, and government officials.• Managed assessment, remediation, and regulatory compliance for several oil and hazardous materials release sites throughout New England.• Applied modeling, drafting, risk assessment, and analytical software to reduce field data, complete assessments, and evaluate and implement remedial technologies.• Devised cost-estimate spreadsheets and teamed with contractors and vendors to prepare and present environmental project proposals and bids.

Woburn, Ma

• Launched start-up environmental consulting firm in 1996.• Assisted with construction, operation, and maintenance of soil and groundwater remediation systems.• Coordinated marketing efforts, including direct mailings, marketing merchandise, and design of new corporate brand.

Rockland, Ma

• Prepared environmental site assessments associated with property transfers in accordance with American Society for Testing and Materials standards.• Acquired field techniques for soil and groundwater sampling protocol.