Glenn A. Harris

Environment and Natural Resources, Litigation, Insurance, Product Liability and Mass Tort

Glenn A. Harris is a partner in the Litigation Department, and a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Group, Product Liability and Mass Tort Group, and Insurance Group. Mr. Harris concentrates his practice in environmental litigation, with an emphasis on Superfund cost recovery and contribution actions.

Mr. Harris has assumed a lead role in many significant Superfund matters, where he has served as common counsel, shared counsel, or liaison counsel. He has represented groups and individual companies in over three dozen Superfund sites in over a dozen states. Mr. Harris has successfully litigated four contribution/cost recovery actions on behalf of plaintiff groups. He also has significant experience in mediating environmental and commercial disputes. For seven years, he has been on the roster of mediators approved by the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts and routinely mediates civil actions by direct referral from Superior Court judges and as part of the Supreme Court's Program for Presumptive Mediation.

Mr. Harris has extensive experience in insurance litigation, including coverage actions to determine environmental clean-up responsibilities, as well as general litigation concerning the insurer/broker/insured relationship. He has represented clients in general commercial litigation.

Representative Matters

• Tried a Superfund contribution action against two nonsettlers, obtaining a significant judgment for his client group
• Represents clients in litigation concerning natural resource damages claims, underground storage tanks, groundwater contamination, wetlands, environmental representations in purchase agreements and other contracts, and NPDES industrial and stormwater discharge permits
• Represented clients in litigation involving and advised on mold, asbestos, and indoor air quality
• Handles compliance with New Jersey's Industrial Site Remediation Act

Professional Activities

American Bar Association
Member, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources; Technology Vice Chair, Superfund and Natural Resource Damages Litigation Committee

New Jersey State Bar Association
Past Director, Environmental Law Section

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law-Camden, Adjunct Professor, environmental law and insurance law

Recognition & Accomplishments

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, environmental law, 2007-2011

The Best Lawyers in America, environmental law, 2011 and 2012

AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell

Publications

Contributor, chapter on Contaminated Site Cost Recovery Litigation in ABA book, Environmental Litigation Law Strategies

Contributor to ABA and other publications concerning environmental law and litigation

"Clarifying Contribution Claims," New Jersey Law Journal, October 24, 2005

Speaking Engagements

Chair and presenter at seminars on environmental law, including CERCLA allocation, sponsored by the New Jersey Bar Association, NBI, and the Information Network for Superfund Settlements

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law-Camden (J.D. 1987)
Editor, Rutgers Law Journal; graduated first in class

California State University at Los Angeles (M.A. 1976)

University of Southern California (B.A. 1973)

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit