Julius's experience includes:

• Serving as first chair for two commercial litigation jury trials and second-chairing a bench trial of a multi-million-dollar commercial litigation matter.
• Serving as a key member of a trial team that represented a leading transportation company in a Clean Water Act citizen suit seeking approximately $4T in damages where the matter settled during trial for a substantial discount to the demand.
• Playing a leadership role as part of the Department of Justice-appointed Independent Corporate Compliance Monitor and Auditor team in connection with the Volkswagen AG emissions proceedings, where he focused on improving the company’s environmental compliance program.
• Favorably settled contaminated property litigation on behalf of an oil and gas company for substantially less than settlement authorization.
• Securing the dismissal of two pipeline companies in an action alleging responsibility for $25 million in damages resulting from contaminated drinking water wells.
• Playing a significant role in obtaining a favorable settlement on behalf of a major city’s water utility in litigation alleging lead contamination of drinking water.
• Working with a leading utility company to design and implement programs to incorporate EJ considerations in project decision-making.
• Counseling companies on “voluntary disclosures” of environmental compliance violations under EPA’s self-disclosure policy and analogous state-based policies.
• Obtaining dismissal of a Fortune 100 chemical manufacturer in two occupational exposure cases without answering any discovery.
• Counseling a leading refining company on compliance with a state analog to CERCLA.
• Successfully representing a leading waste management company in a state administrative proceeding where opponents raised EJ concerns.
• Preparing industry-focused guidance and a 50-state survey on EJ legislation and resources.
• As chair of the ABA Young Lawyers Division’s Environment, Energy, and Resources Law Committee, organizing CLE panels, teleconferences, and committee newsletters that focused on EJ.