Dean A. Calland

Dean Calland is a founding director and shareholder of the firm and a member of the Environmental Group.Mr. Calland’s practice focuses on hazardous and toxic substance regulation and enforcement under RCRA, CERCLA, TSCA, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and related federal and state legislation and regulations. He also leads the firm’s chemical industry practice group.

Mr. Calland is a nationally-recognized authority on RCRA regulatory and corrective action issues and all forms of site remediation, especially brownfields. He participated in the legislative and regulatory negotiations that led to the passage of Pennsylvania’s Land Recycling Program (Act 2) and has worked on brownfields projects throughout the country. He also has extensive experience in handling river cleanup projects, particularly contaminated sediment sites.

He has extensive experience in negotiating environmental issues in complex domestic and foreign transactions, particularly in the chemical industry, and appellate experience arguing cost recovery issues before the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Mr. Calland serves as national environmental counsel for a variety of large national and multinational chemical and plastics corporations and has assisted clients in establishing environmental counsel networks worldwide. He has been widely published and is a frequent lecturer on environmental law issues.

Mr. Calland obtained his B.A. from Yale University in 1976 and his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1979. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Notre Dame Journal of Legislation.