Available Position: Environmental Litigation Support Professional (Northern California)
Environmental Litigation Support Professional (Northern California)
Job Summary
A privately held National Environmental Consulting Firm is seeking an Environmental Scientist, Geologist, Hydrogeologist, or Engineer to assist with environmental litigation project support in our Oakland, California office. Primary duties include providing litigation technical support and assisting in ongoing environmental litigation and settlement activities to determine liability, apportionment, cost allocation, and cost recovery. This role is intended as a professional development path for candidate to become a testifying expert.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide in-depth scientific analyses supporting expert testimony for litigation
- Assist in large document production evaluations
- Evaluate complex technical issues in dispute during litigation
- Support formulating expert opinions for reports, depositions, and trial
- Investigations of private, commercial, and industrial properties
- Interact and coordinate with environmental/legal clients
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Geology, or Engineering
- Minimum 3 years of litigation support experience
- Ability to work well in a team environment
- Pays close attention to detail
- Organized and has the ability to evaluate/prioritize large amounts of information at once
- Knowledge of bates numbering, advanced file management/tracking
- Field experience under litigation scrutiny
- Experience writing or coauthoring professional publications
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Geology, Hydrogeology, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Ideal candidate would have litigation support experience in some of the following areas: source and timing of chemical releases; soil, sediment, soil vapor, and groundwater contaminant fate and transport; necessity and appropriateness of site cleanup costs; equitable allocation among PRPs; risk assessment, data validation, and compliance of response actions with federal and state regulations
- Familiar with NCP/SAP and QAPP process
- Environmental forensics in air, sediment, water, and soil
- Site investigation and characterization, and remediation experience
- Skilled in the areas of review, analysis, and interpretation of scientific data; historical document research; aerial photography interpretation; statistical analysis; and geospatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Familiar with compliance of response actions with federal and state regulations
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