Patricia A Barald

Patricia Barald is a partner whose practice has included a wide array of litigation matters. She is extensively involved in representing corporate policyholders in insurance coverage disputes in state and federal courts throughout the country, including coverage disputes under first party policies, including crime/fraud and fidelity policies, coverage matters for underlying environmental, asbestos, and other claims under third party liability policies, and bankruptcy court matters where corporate policyholders’ rights to continued coverage are at issue. Recently, she has been involved in challenges in the United Kingdom to “solvent schemes of arrangement” whereby British insurance companies have sought to cut off rights of US policyholders under longstanding occurrence policies. She was formerly the head of the firm’s Environmental Practice Group and has over twenty years experience in litigating environmental matters in state and federal court under a wide array of environmental statutes, regulations and ordinances, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA, and RCRA for a variety of private companies, including companies in the chemical industry. Her practice has included environmental aspects of bankruptcy proceedings, negotiating the environmental aspects of corporate transactions, and environmental auditing matters. She has authored guidance for corporate counsel on environmental auditing, and articles on alternate dispute resolution, and the relation between environmental laws and federal bankruptcy law.