Legal
GZA understands how to provide our clients with high quality defensible technical strategies. Our objective is to deliver efficient and cost-effective support to our clients in their efforts to settle or resolve scientific or engineering claims.
Over one-third of GZA principals have provided expert witness services in geotechnical, environmental contamination, or ecological litigation matters.
The attorneys we work with appreciate our multi-disciplinary skills coupled with our ability to persuasively communicate and teach complex technical topics to stakeholders and lay audiences.
We work collaboratively as a member of your strategic team to provide a combination of technical expertise and pragmatic problem-solving experience in developing strategies to help clients achieve their business, dispute, and compliance objectives. We strive to translate and visualize complex technical and regulatory subjects into understandable concepts for the non-technical clients, fact finders, and other stakeholders.
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GZA provides our clients’ in-house or external legal teams with technical support to address compliance, business, and transactional needs concerning federal, state, and local projects.
GZA’s legal practice draws on company expertise to assist clients with issues surrounding land use and entitlement, emerging contaminants, due diligence in the real estate development process, climate change vulnerability analysis, and other regulatory or legal concerns. GZA’s broad base of scientific expertise and project history allows us to issue guidance, assemble reports, and conduct any required audits and other due diligence activities.
- Regulatory Compliance Audits and Permitting
- RCRA Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs)
- CERCLA Compliance
- Environmental and Property Condition Due Diligence
When our clients are involved in litigation, our experienced practitioners offer crucial support to legal counsel.
GZA works to assist with mitigating the impact of litigation by offering a suite of scientific experience and expertise with a rigorous legal eye. Whether a dispute is in mediation, or has gone to a trial before the bench or a jury, GZA assists in locating expert witnesses, constructing exhibits for use in the court, and the development and implementation of forensic studies.
- Forensic Studies
- Claim Analysis
- Exposure Dose Reconstruction
- Visualization and Simulation
- Expert Testimony
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PFAS, PFAS All Around: What's Next?
PFAS, referred to as “forever chemicals” because of their persistence in the environment, are causing fear among the general public and consternation in the regulated community. In some states...
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Navigating the Muddy Waters of the Supreme Court's Maui Decision
In this presentation, Mintz attorney Jeffrey Porter, and Kimberly Degutis and Joshua Simpson from GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. reviewed how we got here, where we may be heading, and the technical and...
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Massachusetts' New PFAS Regulations, In A Flowchart
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Maui decision impacts reach the Mainland
The outcome of a case involving a 2014 leak from a Kinder Morgan Energy Partners gasoline pipeline in Belton, SC, remains in doubt after an April Supreme Court decision extending Federal Clean Water...
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