Greenberg Traurig's Miami office. Photo: J. Albert Diaz/ALM

Speakers

Greenberg Traurig global environmental practice co-chair David G. Mandelbaum and Philadelphia office managing shareholder Curtis B. Toll are set to lead the Environmental Law Institute Seminar on settlements for Superfund sites.

They will discuss new approaches to environmental risk transfer mechanisms.

Using the 2019 settlement for the last remaining litigation work concerning the Fox River Superfund site, Mandelbaum and Toll will lead a panel discussion on the environmental risk-transfer mechanisms in work party Superfund settlements that can allow for a "synthetic cash-out"—a means of lowering costs for settling defendants and clarifying costs for all parties.

This method addresses the challenges typically encountered by long schedules of such settlements, which historically pose problems for both settling defendants and the government.

The session will review modeling analysis to quantify unknown costs when conducting long-term work and translating these techniques to fixed-price-to-closure contracting arrangements to help achieve more comprehensive settlements.

Using manuscripted, site-specific pollution liability insurance to manage unquantified and unknown regulatory risks—now and in the future—also will be addressed.

Mandelbaum will moderate, and Toll will present.

Kimberly Mann, senior vice president of environmental practice for Marsh & McLennan Cos., and Albert J. Ricciardelli, principal at GZA GeoEnvironmental, will complete the panel.

The event is set to be held from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Feb. 24 at Greenberg Traurig's office in Philadelphia.

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Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti partners Douglas K. Rosenblum, Lourdes Sanchez Ridge and John A. Schwab are slated to co-host a CLE titled "A Corruption Overview: It's Not Just Cash in a Bag" with assistant U.S. attorney Eric Gibson at Pietragallo's Philadelphia office.

This CLE is set to take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. March 19.

The course is free to attendees, and Pietragallo will cover the cost of attendees' Pennsylvania CLE credits, as it is an approved course.

The course will review corruption and the law, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, red flags and clues for potential corruption, the prosecution and defense sides of the law, and a focus on some recent cases and developments.

The speakers will also discuss how prosecutors make charging decisions in corruption cases and the challenges defense attorneys must navigate to prepare clients under investigation.

Elected and Appointed

Samuel W. Silver, a partner in Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis' litigation department, was elected president of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project.

The nonprofit organization works to exonerate those convicted of crimes they did not commit and to prevent innocent people from being convicted.

Silver, a fellow of both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, handles high-profile and pro bono matters, including major homicide cases and death penalty litigation.

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