LLM has successfully assisted companies, steering committees, and their counsel in a broad range of environmental matters at dozens of sites across the country including: various USEPA, state, and local agency enforcement actions; third-party cost recovery actions; toxic tort litigation; and insurance coverage matters. Our personnel have over two decades of experience in environmental issues and technical knowledge of remediation processes, environmental investigation, and project cost estimating. In addition, we have specific industry expertise regarding operational issues that may impact cost analyses. We provide a full range of analytical, litigation, and settlement support services, including expert witness services, for virtually any environmental issue facing a company, including the following:

• Environmental Damages/Cost Analysis
  LLM prepares credible and thorough analyses of environmental liabilities and potential remediation costs for litigation and regulatory disputes. Click the link to read more.
  • Incurred Cost Reconstruction
  • Future Cost Quantification
  • Agency Oversight Cost Analysis
• PRP Identification and Contribution Analysis/Allocation
  LLM’s approach to environmental cost allocation matters is flexible, accounting for site-specific facts and the availability of information to determine the appropriate mix of factual foundation, allocation principles, and case precedents to use in our analysis. Click the link to read more.
• Natural Resource Damage (NRD) Claims
  LLM teams with experts experienced in employing sophisticated economic, statistical, and financial modeling techniques in the assessment of private/social benefits and costs on local and regional economies from specific events. Click the link to read more.
• Enforcement Penalties (BEN Modeling)
  LLM examines a number of key factors that influence alleged economic benefit to provide a clear picture of the alleged “benefit,” often resulting in more accurate and reasonable assessments of damages. Click the link to read more.
• Toxic Tort Lawsuits
  LLM addresses the complex issues that arise in these cases, including class-action certification analysis, expert damage analyses, management of detailed claimant information. Click the link to read more.

Our clients include both large multinational companies and medium-to-small companies in a variety of industries at a variety of sites, including:

• Heavy and High-Tech Manufacturing Facilities
• Petrochemical Facilities
• Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
• Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Facilities
• Landfills and Other Transfer, Storage and Disposal Facilities
• Mining Operations
• Paper and Pulp Mills
• Railroad Facilities
• Underground Storage Tank Sites
• Lakes, Rivers and Other Waterways

Our environmental team blends diverse backgrounds in accounting, engineering, economics, and information systems to provide clients with the appropriate combination of skills to meet their needs.