ONE MONARCH PLACE, SUITE 1900
1414 MAIN STREET
SPRINGFIELD, MA 01144-1900
TELEPHONE • 413-733-3111
FAX • 413-734-3910
60 STATE STREET
NORTHAMPTON, MA 01060
TELEPHONE • 413-584-1500
FAX • 413-584-1670
ENVIRONMENTAL
Because virtually every business activity today carries with it environmental implications, Doherty, Wallace has developed an expertise in environmental compliance and litigation. The firm helps clients to resolve, and to prevent, environmental problems.
Doherty, Wallace is one of the few law firms in Western Massachusetts with significant environmental litigation experience. A firm attorney, for example, was lead counsel in the defense of one of the largest toxic tort cases in Massachusetts, which lasted five years and involved more than two thousand claimants.
The firm negotiates with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection in connection with hazardous materials remedial actions. The firm also represents clients before local conservation commissions.
Doherty, Wallace has experience representing companies in litigation involving the allocation of clean-up responsibility at toxic waste sites among potentially responsible parties.
The firm regularly advises owners, occupants, purchasers, and sellers of real estate on their rights and obligations under hazardous materials, wetlands, and other environmental laws and regulations.
Doherty, Wallace routinely works with consultants in undertaking and analyzing hazardous materials site assessments and in determining appropriate responses based on the results of these reviews.