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Area of Emphasis
Dean Calland is a founding shareholder in the Environmental Health and Safety Services Group of Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir, P.C. Mr. Calland’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.
Mr. Calland is a nationally recognized authority on RCRA regulatory and corrective action issues and all forms of site remediation (including brownfields). He has extensive experience with Natural Resource Damages issues for clients in a variety of states across the country, including New Jersey. He has extensive appellate experience arguing cost recovery issues before the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals and is active in negotiating environmental issues in complex domestic and foreign transactions, particularly in the chemical, petroleum and metals industries.
Mr. Calland serves as national environmental counsel for several large national and multinational chemical and plastics corporations and has assisted clients in establishing environmental counsel networks worldwide. He has been widely published and is a frequent lecturer on environmental law issues.
Background
One of the founders of the firm, Mr. Calland obtained his B.A. from Yale University in 1976 and his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1979. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Notre Dame Journal of Legislation.
Memberships and Affiliations
Mr. Calland is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia and American Bar Associations. He is the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Environmental Transactions and Brownfields for the American Bar Association’s Environmental Section. Mr. Calland is also a Fellow of the Allegheny County Bar Association Foundation.
The Best Lawyers in America® has included Mr. Calland in their Environmental Section since 1993 and named him "The Best Lawyers Environmental Lawyer of the Year" in Western Pennsylvania for 2010. He has ranked in the highest rated category for Pennsylvania environmental lawyers in Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Business Lawyers since 2003.
Mr. Calland has been recognized as one of Pennsylvania’s top lawyers and one of Pittsburgh’s top 50 lawyers, according to an annual survey published in Philadelphia magazine.
In addition, he has been selected as a member of The International Who’s Who of Environmental Lawyers.
Mr. Calland serves on the Board of Directors of RiverQuest, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to educating children and teachers regarding the ecologic value of Pittsburgh’s three rivers. He is also the President of the Board of Directors of the Crossroads Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to helping at-risk inner city youth graduate from high school and go on to higher educational opportunities and along with his wife Mary, is the recipient of the 2009 NCEA Elizabeth Ann Seton Award for outstanding service to Catholic education.
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