The Role of LSRPs and Environmental Consultants in Litigation and Dispute Resolution

March 31, 2020
9:00am - 12:30pm (Check-in time: 8:30am)

Environmental professionals are at times engaged to serve as litigation experts. More frequently, they find themselves involved in cases when their work sites become the subjects of lawsuits and they are brought in as fact witnesses. This revised, half-day class provides guidance to LSRPs and environmental consultants on best practices of expert and fact witnesses, and it explores the consultant's role in other dispute resolution processes.

As environmental issues have become increasingly complex, the role of LSRPs and other technically trained professionals in litigation continues to grow, and their advice and testimony is often decisive.

Program Topics

• Professional integrity within the courtroom
• Recordkeeping for depositions and testimony
• Value and strength of independent professional judgment
• Presenting testimony within the bounds of the law and expertise
• Planning for cross examination
• Dispute resolution uses and tactics

Instructors
Dennis Krumholz | Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti
Lanny Kurzweil | McCarter & English (invited)
Daniel Nachman | TRC
Jeffrey Pollock | Fox Rothschild (invited)
Linda Taylor | NJDEP
Ira Whitman | Whitman

In addition to 0.35 Rutgers CEUs, this environmental law course has been approved for the following credits:

NJ Licensed Site Remediation Professionals (LSRP): Pending

NJ Health Officers & Registered Environmental Health Specialists: Rutgers University, NJAES, Office of Continuing Professional Education has been approved by the New Jersey Department of Health as a provider of NJ Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEs). Participants who complete this education program will be awarded 3.5 NJ Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEs).

NJ Continuing Legal Education: 3.5 CLEs

NJ Professional Engineers: 3.5 Continuing Professional Competency (CPC) credits

PA/NY Continuing Legal Education: 3.0 CLEs

Substitutions are permitted. View cancellation policy.

Continental breakfast will be provided to you at no additional cost.

NOTE: If you have any dietary restrictions or food allergies, please alert us at least one (1) week in advance of the course start date so that we can make reasonable accommodations. We cannot guarantee accommodations for special requests made after that time.

GPS systems may not recognize campus addresses. Even if they take you to the correct building, they will not take you to the assigned parking lot. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you use the directions we provide.

Ralph Geiger Turfgrass Education Center
20 Indyk-Engel Way, New Brunswick, NJ 08902
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Note: Pre-registration is required. We're sorry, but we cannot guarantee a seat, materials or meals for walk-in registrants. Location is subject to change; registrants will be notified in the event of a change.