Terraphase provides a variety of services to attorneys and law firms to assist their clients with engineering and environmental expertise in projects ranging from environmental management and compliance to enforcement defense, transactional due diligence, and litigation and expert witness support. Our engineering and scientific experts bring experiential knowledge from decades of experience in the field and experience with numerous litigation support projects to inform the strategy, sequence and work product development for law firms nationwide.

Specific areas of expertise that we provide for our attorney clients include:

• Environmental Compliance
  • Solid waste, universal waste, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) waste management
  • State-specific waste, air, stormwater and wastewater permitting and management
  • Compliance review for storage tanks, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
• Environmental Due Diligence
  • Pre- and post-acquisition, buyer/seller, due diligence
  • Phase I through remediation
  • Divestiture support
• Environmental Liability Management
  • Portfolio review
  • Engineering and environmental cost estimates
  • Reserve analysis
• Enforcement
  • State and federal enforcement case support (e.g. CERCLA, New Jersey Spill Act defense), regulatory negotiation
• Litigation
  • Toxic tort
  • Expert testimony in risk management, contaminant transport and hydrogeology, and geotechnical engineering
  • Construction review
  • Engineering forensics
  • Trial material and exhibit preparation