Steven Goldberg is a leading attorney in environmental litigation and compliance in California. With more than thirty-five years of experience, Steven is known as a strategic, effective, and responsive advocate with exceptional communication skills. He is known to negotiate and resolve complex disputes and is often selected by other attorneys and their clients as common counsel or liaison counsel for multiple-party lawsuits. With a particular focus on groundwater contamination, CERCLA matters and NRD, Steven has handled some of the most significant contamination cases in California. He has litigated dozens of cases in state and federal courts throughout California including appellate courts and the Ninth Circuit. Steven has collaborated with technical experts throughout the United States on a broad range of contamination matters involving solvents, petroleum products, perchlorate, PFAs/PFOAs, PCBs, vapor intrusion,  natural resource damages, and sediment contamination. Clients appreciate his ability to focus on resolving complex environmental matters with creative approaches and presenting technical issues directly yet compellingly.

Steven’s clients include Fortune 500 corporations with business interests in California and other regionally based, publicly traded, private companies and public entities. He successfully manages multimillion-dollar actions, which include government enforcement, cost recovery claims and allocation litigation, toxic tort actions, and multiparty contamination matters involving chemical and petroleum facilities, pharmaceutical companies, forest products, agribusiness companies, owners of large tracts of land, landfill and waste management companies, defense contractors, energy industry facilities, dry cleaners, and public entities. Steven also provides compliance advice and counsel to many companies on regulatory issues, emergency response, and risk management. Steven’s extensive network of contacts in the state capitol allows him to effectively and timely advise clients on innovative environmental issues.

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