Insurance Environmental

DANIEL T. MCKILLOP, ESQ.

*** ******* *******, *********, *** JERSEY 07450

***************@*****.*** • 973-***-****

Experienced environmental law attorney and NASP-certified Environmental Health and Safety Management

Specialist with proven track record of success representing corporate and business industry clients in litigation,

transactional, regulatory, administrative and compliance counseling matters.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey state and Federal courts and in the District of Columbia.

LICENSES AND

New York bar admission pending.

CERTIFICATIONS

National Association of Safety Professionals (NASP): Certification of Environmental Health

and Safety Management Specialist (EHS) – General Industry.

National Safety Council certifications: OSHA, OSHA Recordkeeping, Process Safety

Management, Hazard Recognition, Incident Investigation, Hazardous Waste Operations and

Emergency Response (HAZWOPER), Hazardous Materials Transportation.

Wolff & Samson PC, West Orange, NJ 2005 – Present

EMPLOYMENT

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Parsippany, NJ 2003 – 2005

Pitney Hardin Kipp & Szuch LLP, Florham Park, NJ 2001 – 2003

Selected as a “New Jersey Rising Star,” New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine, 2011-2013

AWARDS,

Co-author, “Surviving The Next Sandy,” Meadowlands USA Magazine, August 2013

PUBLICATIONS,

Presenter, “Overview of Federal Environmental Law,” CBIZ Inc., April 2013

PRESENTATIONS

Co-author, “New Jersey’s Solar Renewable Portfolio Standards: A Model For Success,”

Bureau of National Affairs Daily Environment Report/Climate Change Report, August 2011

Contributor, New Jersey Environmental Law, Juris Publishing, December 2010

Contributor, Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: 2009, ABA, March 2010

Environmental Audits and Self-Assessments, Rutgers CPE Series, February 2007

New Jersey Tidelands Program: History and Title Insurance Issues, Fidelity National Title

Insurance Company, Oct. 2006, July 2007

Co-author, “Un-Natural Resource Damages: NJDEP Goes Too Far Afield,” Metropolitan

Corporate Counsel, Vols. 05-07, May-July 2003

“Trade and Environment: International Dispute Resolution,” The Journal of the Pace Center

for Environmental Legal Studies, Spring 2001; cited in The Promise and Peril of

International Trade, J. Colgan, 2004, Chapter 12: The WTO and the Environment

Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York

EDUCATIONAL /

Juris Doctorate, cum laude, 2001

PERSONAL

Environmental Law Certificate and International Law Certificate

BACKGROUND

Member, Pace Environmental Law Review

Chairman, 2001 National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition

Team Leader, 2000 U.S. International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition

Student Attorney, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic

Student Attorney, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, U.S. Military Academy

University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

Bachelor of Arts, Government and International Studies, 1997

Concentration in Law and Public Policy

Eagle Scout. Extensive domestic and foreign travel experience.

EXPERIENCE

Represented Fortune 200 personal products company regarding investigation of former

LITIGATION

New Jersey manufacturing property by U.S. EPA. Avoided litigation and settled matter

through legal research, exhaustive factual research regarding client’s 19th and 20th century

manufacturing operations, and first-hand negotiations with U.S. EPA.

Representing multiple national and state business and industry organizations in defense of

the validity of the NJDEP “Waiver Rule.” Primary draftsman of legal arguments within

prevailing brief filed with the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court and

within brief opposing certiorari filed with the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Represented commercial waste hauler in concurrent matters before New Jersey Office of

Administrative Law, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court and the New

Jersey Supreme Court regarding potential revocation of client’s operational license. Lead

draftsman of emergent motions filed with the Appellate Division and Supreme Court on

extremely expedited timelines. Successfully obtained stay of revocation.

Represented client from inception through settlement of complex, multi-party landfill

remediation litigation. Client’s final liability reduced to 3% of initial demand through

successful negotiations with NJDEP, corporate counsel and all parties.

Represented national insurance carrier in complex environmental litigation venued in the

Central District of California. Coordinated mediation efforts among parties, insurance

carriers and dozens of third-party defendants.

Represented national insurance carrier and achieved favorable settlement in complex, multi-

party groundwater contamination suit venued in the Northern District of Illinois.

Represented home heating oil provider in multi-party leaking underground storage tank

litigation. Authored dispositive motions and served as discovery and trial coordinator.

Represented Pennsylvania specialty gas company in successful settlement of multi-party

environmental and real estate litigation regarding client’s tenancy in Camden, New Jersey.

Represented India-based global communications company and coordinated domestic and

TRANSACTIONAL

foreign environmental counsel and consultants in due diligence investigations of 50

worldwide telecommunication sites in successful $130 million corporate acquisition.

Represented U.S. global communications company and coordinated discovery proceedings

and trial preparation conducted in the United States, Europe and Saudi Arabia during

successful defense of $92 million claim by Saudi entities in U.S. Federal court.

Representing New Jersey commercial property purchaser and coordinating soil and

groundwater remediation by county personnel, NJDEP staff and multiple LSRPs.

Represented commercial property developer and coordinated all environmental permitting

matters pertaining to Meadowlands Xanadu/American Dream Meadowlands project.

Represented commercial property owner and expedited efforts of transactional counsel in

transfer of hazardous materials permits to tenant while avoiding business interruption.

Represented owner of coal and oil-burning power generation station in successful rate

REGULATORY

petition to the New Jersey BPU, facilitating station conversion to natural gas.

AND

Representing Class II freight railway operating over 500 miles of track within New York,

ADMINISTRATIVE

Pennsylvania and New Jersey with respect to notices of environmental violations pertaining

to the transloading and rail transport of hazardous materials.

Represented industrial client operating a waste-to-energy facility in effort to stay the

revocation of air emission operating permits. Coordinated effort with client, technical

consultants, and corporate counsel and successfully obtained stays of permit revocations.

Advised Fortune 200 energy utility client regarding Federal, New Jersey and Pennsylvania

COMPLIANCE

wetland and flood hazard area permit issues impacting client’s infrastructure expansion

AND

efforts, including installation of cooling water structures at electricity generating stations.

PROACTIVE

Advised New Jersey senior care company with respect to installation and benefits of solar

COUNSELING

power systems at company facilities located within New Jersey and nationwide.

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