We meld the law with science to create the most defensible allocation possible for our clients. The proof is in the numbers. Our environmental liability allocation attorneys have more than one hundred years of experience on Superfund sites. We’ve achieved favorable allocations of liability in environmental disputes in fourteen states across the U.S., have experience on more than forty-five Superfund sites and have provided expert witness services in over sixty-five cases. Our innovative problem-solving and award-winning Superfund case management techniques make us one of the most trusted and renowned teams in the region and country for mediation, arbitration and expert witness services.

Our team is well-versed in all key components of liability allocation, including:

  • Gore factors and case law allocation factors
  • Divisibility of harm
  • Site history reconstruction
  • Waste stream reconstruction
  • Potentially responsible party investigation
  • Transactional database management
  • Environmental forensics
  • Fate and transport
  • Cause and effect analysis
  • Risk assessment
  • Remediation cost causation
  • Damages/financial analysis

Leaders in high-stakes, high-profile matters

With decades of experience dealing with CERCLA, RCRA, and state controlled hazardous waste sites, our team is distinguished by ground-breaking allocation methodologies and de minimis settlements, precedential approaches to complex Superfund settlements, and innovative procedures for remedial cost estimation, settlement risk management mechanisms and associated pricing of settlements. Preti Flaherty attorneys have litigated, negotiated and mediated very high stakes injunctive and cost recovery matters, including land-based owner/operator and generator sites as well as sediment and riverine sites.

Firm Highlights

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November 7, 2023 Election Results

Maine’s November 2023 statewide elections were exclusively referendum questions, four were citizen initiatives, and four were proposed amendments to the Maine Constitution. Of these, Questions 5, 7 and 8 were placed on the ballot...

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Preti Flaherty Ranked Among Best Lawyers 2024 Best Law Firms

Best Lawyers has ranked Preti Flaherty among the Best Law Firms for 2024. To be eligible for ranking, a law firm must have at least one attorney named in the 2024 Best Lawyers in...

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Eric Osterberg Presents Webinar on IP Rights and Infringement With Podcasts and Livestreaming

Eric Osterberg joins a panel of industry experts to present “IP Rights and Infringement With Podcasts and Livestreaming.” The panel focuses on guiding intellectual property counsel on the IP issues that arise when creating...

Press Coverage

Bangor Releases Unredacted Files on Effort to Close Homeless Encampment

Following a five-month effort by local media, represented by attorney Sigmund Schutz, chair of Preti Flaherty's Media Law Practice Group, the City of Bangor finally released unredacted records related to its attempts to close a...

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Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Wins Public Records Dispute with York County Jail

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Maine Workers’ Compensation Update - November 2023

The following is an overview of developments with respect to proposed legislation as well as new procedures on independent contractor determinations, medical fee schedule updates, and the use of updated Board forms, including medical...

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Remembering Preti Flaherty Founder Robert F. Preti

We at Preti Flaherty are deeply saddened by the passing of one of our founding partners and longtime friend, Robert Preti. Bob was not just a part of our firm; he was a part...

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FRBP 9006 Doesn't Take Vacations

Bodie Colwell of Preti Flaherty’s Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy Group, has authored the article "FRBP 9006 Doesn't Take Vacations," appearing in the October 2023 issue of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Young & New Members Committee newsletter...

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Preti Flaherty Welcomes Employment Law Attorney Brooke K. Haley to the Firm

Preti Flaherty is pleased to announce that attorney Brooke K. Haley has joined the firm’s Employment Law Practice Group as a Partner. Brooke will work primarily from the firm’s Portland office. Brooke’s practice centers...

Press Coverage

Maine Media Organizations Oppose Foreign Electioneering Ban

Question 2 on Maine’s November ballot asserts that corporations owned or controlled by foreign governments do not have the same rights to political speech as companies here in the U.S. and that foreign governments should be prohibited...