Dean Calland

Dean's practice focuses on hazardous and toxic substance regulation and enforcement under RCRA, CERCLA, TSCA and related federal and state legislation in the chemical, plastics, petroleum and metal industries. He is a nationally recognized authority on RCRA regulatory and corrective action issues and all forms of site remediation, including brownfields. 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. Dean serves as national environmental counsel for a variety of large national and multinational chemical and plastics corporations. He assists clients in establishing environmental counsel networks worldwide. He has been widely published and is a frequent lecturer on environmental law issues. Dean is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia and is a member of the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. Among many other honors, he was named as "Environmental Lawyer of the Year" in Pennsylvania by The Best Lawyers in America, which has selected him for inclusion in their Environmental Section since 1993. He has consistently ranked in the highest-rated category for Pennsylvania environmental lawyers in Chambers USA's America's Leading Business Lawyers and has been selected as a member of The International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers.