While big firms cash in on the boom in natural gas fracking deals, San Francisco’s Sedgwick is drilling its own niche in the bedrock.
The 350-lawyer firm has set its sights on the litigation work that’s already begun to spring from the lucrative but controversial hydraulic fracturing business. Fracking, as the process is known, involves the injection of water and chemicals into the ground to break up rocks and release hard-to-reach natural gas from resource rich areas like Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale. Environmentalists have long claimed that the drilling process leads to groundwater contamination, something that drilling proponents have staunchly denied.
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