At Genesis Engineering & Redevelopment (GE&R) we understand that litigation is demanding and that the support required during trial preparation and trial often consist of long days. Our team is dedicated to provide 11th hour, 24/7 support, and significant firm resources when last minute legal strategies require such a commitment to support/enhance the litigation effort.
When you are under the gun, you can count on GE&R to deliver the support you need to effectively litigate your case. As seasoned and savvy litigation support specialists, your priority is our priority, which is why our clients claim that our service is unmatched in the industry. Our attention to detail and customer service is the difference.
Pre-Trial Support
Recognizing the importance of understanding the needs of legal counsel, GE&R provides as full range of “Pre-Trial” services required to support a case. Our environmental litigation team assist in several ways including:
- Determining the scientific strengths and weaknesses of potential litigation – We perform the technical analyses necessary to evaluate the merits of a case or to provide scientific evidence supporting or refuting a claim
- Providing scientific support during settlement talks
- Providing the practical interpretation of regulations
- Developing technical strategies in cooperation with the client and legal counsel
- Third party review of reports, assessments, and invoices
- Human health and ecological risk assessments
- Historical land use and ownership evaluations
- Deposition review and summarizations of environmental issues
- We conduct environmental soil, groundwater, soil vapor intrusion, and/or indoor air investigations to collect data necessary to support our client’s case
- Causation and liability analysis
- Estimating cost of environmental liabilities for settlement/litigation
- Private investigations, including contributing source and PRP investigations
- Regulatory compliance and permitting
- Chemical fingerprinting, profiling, and age dating
- Expert deposition testimony – We provide expert testimony on a host of environmental, engineering, geological, and safety-related issues
- Counsel training – We provide training to many attorneys on topics such as the fate and transport of environmental contaminants, soil vapor intrusion, air contaminant dispersion, and risk assessment/mitigation
Trial Support
GE&R’s litigation support team has extensive experience supporting cases that have gone to trial. We know that curve balls are thrown and know that is our job to react with immediate support to ensure that legal counsel has the appropriate evaluations, analyses, summaries, data packages, and/or exhibits in hand when in the courtroom or when sitting down at the mediation table. Sometimes this mean our team working day and night and weekends to develop sound defensible deliverables that legal counsel requires to support the case. This is our commitment.
Our trial support services include but are not limited to:
- Expert courtroom testimony – We provide expert testimony on a host of environmental, engineering, geological, and safety-related issues
- Development of state-of-the-art Exhibits using a variety of traditional and current multi-media resources
- Research of regulatory issues
- Research of historic data
- Research to refute opposing counsel claim
Team assist in several ways including:
- Improves Shareholder Value
- Improves Corporate Image and Focus
- Facilitates Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures
- Brings focus and efficiency to a typically lengthy and cumbersome process
- Estimating cost to evaluate environmental liabilities
- Fact verification
- Counsel training – We provide training to many attorneys on technical topics such geology, hydrogeology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, as the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, dispersion modeling, remedial and control technologies, etc.