John represents industrial and commercial clients facing complex environmental exposure and remediation cases, successfully defending clients in class and mass actions, citizen suits, private cost recovery actions, and contract disputes. Applying a detailed understanding of his clients’ operations, John develops strong, fact-based defenses grounded in reliable science to focus the legal issues in complex litigation. While John’s practice centers on cases involving technical, scientific, and engineering issues, the key is to make these issues clear and relatable.

John also counsels permittees and project developers navigating environmental permits and transactions. The same strengths that John uses in litigation also steer his clients through multi-layered permitting processes. Ensuring that regulatory agencies understand how a client’s operation fits within the legal framework, John works with clients and consultants to secure logical and sustainable permit requirements. In agency enforcement actions, he helps defeat unsupported claims while charting practical paths toward compliance when necessary.

In any context, John bases defenses, negotiations, and permitting strategies on a close understanding of his client’s goals and operations, the purposes of the legal framework, and the forces driving agencies, litigation opponents, or other parties in a transaction.

John leads B&D’s Waste Management & Recycling Practice Group. Before entering law school, he served in the U.S. Peace Corps in the Republic of Moldova.