Jeffrey Talbert is an accomplished trial attorney and environmental lawyer who focuses on environmental litigation, permitting, and risk management. He also serves as a mediator and allocator of costs at Superfund Sites and has significant experience in all major environmental statutes.

Prior to joining the firm, Jeff led the environmental group at a Chambers-ranked law firm and was a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Section. At the U.S. DOJ, he led one of the largest Clean Water Act cases in U.S. history, the first Clean Air Act case under EPA’s pulp and paper initiative related to New Source Review, the largest Natural Resource Damages case under the Park Service Resource Protection Act, and numerous CERCLA and RCRA cases. Jeff received numerous awards for his work, including EPA's Gold Medal for exceptional service.

Jeff’s extensive public service and private practice experience includes working on over 70 CERCLA/Superfund or RCRA sites across the United States, including cases involving contaminated sediments and natural resource damages. He has also led cases involving the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Natural Resources Protection Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

Jeff has significant first-chair trial experience in complex commercial cases, including several with exposure over a billion dollars. He is lead trial counsel for a group of 70 parties in litigation involving potential responsibility for cleanup costs at the Lower Passaic River estimated at over $2 billion. Jeff’s commercial trial experience includes cases involving environmental laws, antitrust, securities, patents, trademark, contract disputes, and anti-terrorism.