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David A. Roth is a partner of the firm in its Real Estate Department, and chair of the Environmental Practice Group. For over 20 years, Mr. Roth has concentrated his practice in environmental, health and safety law, with a special emphasis on compliance counseling and environmental aspects of real estate and business transactions. In recent years Mr. Roth has effectively functioned as national environmental counsel for a group of consumer product and manufacturing companies. Mr. Roth assists clients in resolving issues arising under solid and hazardous waste laws, the federal Clean Water Act, the New Jersey Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA), the Toxic Substances Control Act, right-to-know programs, the Occupational Safety and Health Act and emerging product safety laws. A substantial part of Mr. Roth’s practice involves negotiating with and appearing before federal, state and local agencies in connection with enforcement actions, site investigation and clean up cases, permitting, voluntary agreements, and administrative consent orders, and handling administrative and judicial appeals. He also works closely with client EHS and legal departments on auditing, developing environmental management systems, and training with respect to compliance, reporting and disclosure requirements. Mr. Roth represents clients engaged in Brownfield redevelopment projects, purchase and sale of real estate, businesses and companies, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financings and leasing of commercial and industrial facilities and properties. His role in these transactions includes overseeing due diligence, analyzing potential liabilities, providing advice on liability protection strategies, and structuring agreements to deal with post-closing site work, engineering and institutional controls, deed notices and land use restrictions. At dozens of federal and state listed hazardous waste disposal and contamination sites throughout the United States, Mr. Roth has represented companies that have been notified of potential liability under CERCLA, the New Jersey Spill Act and other state superfund laws. He has also been involved in environmental litigation in federal and state courts, such as private cost recovery and contribution lawsuits, property damage cases, toxic tort litigation and natural resource damage cases. He is a co-author of A Non-Toxic Ounce of Prevention: Notes on Handling Enron-era Environmental Investigations, New Jersey Law Journal (December 2006). Mr. Roth is a Director of the Environmental Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and a member of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. He is admitted to practice in the state courts of New Jersey (1986) and Maryland (1985), and several federal courts. He is a graduate of Rutgers University (1982) and received his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law (1985). | 