Robert D. Fox & Kate Campbell of Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP Panelists at the Sediment & PRP Summit

Robert D. Fox and Kate Campbell, partners with the environmental, energy, litigation, safety and land use law firm of Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP (“MGKF”)located just outside Philadelphia, PA, will participate in the “Sediment and PRP Summit” presented by EHS Support. This program will take place on September 22 from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm EST at the Wyndham Hotel in Philadelphia. For more information and to register, visit https://ehssummit/splashthat.com.

Campbell’s panel entitled, “The Evolution of CERCLA Megasites” will introduce the concept that sediment sites are the new CERCLA mega-sites. The panelists will offer their perspectives on how CERCLA practice has changed at sites including compositions of PRPs, cleanup costs, availability of technology, and allocation and cost recovery strategies. They will also weigh in on how major CERCLA decisions have impacted the legal landscape and litigation challenges facing CERCLA mega-sites. This program will run from 11:00 am – noon.

Robb Fox will participate on the hour-long panel on “Perspectives on Common Challenges at Sediment Remediation Sites” that will start at 3:45 pm. The presenters will offer their insights on common challenges at sediment sites such as the law requiring more certainty than science often allows, controlling costs, managing human health and environmental risks while dredging, and addressing non-CERCLA components in contaminated sediments sites such as pathogens, habitat loss/modification, odor and aesthetics.

Fox is the immediate past managing partner of the firm and has a diverse practice involving compliance counseling, litigation and transactional work for clients in the waste, chemical manufacturing and development industries and on behalf of cities and municipalities. He is known nationally for his work under the federal Superfund law including handling many high profile Superfund matters such as the Keystone Landfill matter, featured on 60 Minutes, and the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek sites. He regularly litigates Superfund issues of first impression at the trial and appellate levels in multiple jurisdictions.

Fox’s litigation experience extends to class action and toxic tort defense and appeals before federal and state environmental hearing boards. He also represents local, regional and national clients in the environmental aspects of business transactions, ranging from redeveloping brownfields (he assisted in the drafting of the 2002 brownfields amendment to the federal Superfund law) to managing liabilities in the environmental acquisition and divestiture of multinational companies. He has been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania for 27 years.

Kate Campbell is a litigation partner at the firm, where she focuses her practice on Superfund and environmental, toxic tort and class action litigation. She represents potentially responsible parties at complex Superfund sites across the country, and has developed considerable experience in litigating cost recovery and contribution actions under CERCLA and state law.

Campbell now serves as the firm's Hiring Partner after chairing its Summer Associate Program for five years. Outside of the office, she teaches Toxic Tort Litigation as an adjunct professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. She is also the Vice President of the Superfund and Natural Resource Damages Litigation Committee for the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources.

MGKF concentrates its practice in environmental, energy, litigation, safety and land use law. It represents clients ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to small, privately held enterprises, both in the Mid-Atlantic region and on a national basis. MGKF is honored to be the top-rated law firm, since 2011, in the Top Workplaces surveys by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com. The firm was recently recognized by Law360, produced by Portfolio Media, Inc., as one of the top 20 “Ceiling Smashers” for Female Partners in the nation, based on its percentage of women in the partnership. Offices are located at: 401 City Avenue, Suite 901, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; 535 Route 38, Suite 145A, Cherry Hill, New Jersey; and at 25 West Third Street, Suite 303, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. For additional information, visit www.mankogold.com or call 484-430-5700, 856-317-1299, or 570-567-7325.