Partner Gregory J. Newmark and Special Counsel Viviana Heger have joined Duane Morris’s Los Angeles office as part of the firm’s national Trial Practice Group.
Newmark
Gregory J. Newmark represents public and private entity clients in litigation and compliance matters regarding water quality, water rights, water rates, environmental contamination, inverse condemnation and brownfields. Newmark has extensive litigation experience, including complex multiparty disputes. He represents clients in a broad array of environmental and land use matters, often serving as counsel in administrative permitting and enforcement proceedings before the California State Water Resources Control Board and the California Regional Water Quality Control Board. Newmark litigates administrative appeals and civil actions on behalf of waste discharge and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permittees and has handled numerous cases involving groundwater contamination issues. He can be reached at [email protected].
Heger
Viviana Heger has deep experience in a wide variety of complex environmental compliance matters, including more than two decades of involvement in environmental permitting for industrial and infrastructure projects, emissions trading programs, and counseling energy, manufacturing, recreation, food and beverage and municipal clients. Heger’s experience also includes compliance counseling and complex litigation, administrative petitions and appeals, defense in enforcement, procurement of permits and abandonment and closure of hazardous material structures. She advises and defends clients in crisis situations involving accidents, spills, releases or other scenarios such as safely closing or abandoning pipelines and underground storage tanks. She can be reached at [email protected].
