Environmental Law

Mr. Sacks’ environmental work dates to the 1990s and early 2000s, when he represented landowners across Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Kentucky in groundbreaking litigation involving radioactive material associated with oilfield production water, unlined disposal pits, residential property contamination, land damage, and cleanup costs. He resolved cases for landowners against most of the largest oil companies in America, recovering substantial sums for property owners who had been left with contamination and damage they did not create.

His leading environmental case came in 2005, when he and a team of law firms tried a case against Exxon. The trial lasted approximately one month and resulted in a verdict of over $1 billion, one of the largest single landowner environmental verdicts in American history.

Since then, Mr. Sacks has continued to handle and investigate environmental cases. His work focuses on cases where companies dispose of waste, or place materials into communities while withholding material information about contamination, chemical composition, safety testing, cleanup responsibility, property damage, or long-term risk to property owners and consumers.

Mr. Sacks’ environmental work spans more than thirty years. That experience allows him to evaluate cases of many sizes, from individual property damage matters to broader consumer and environmental investigations. He evaluates cases for property owners, consumers, and others affected by environmental contamination, or corporate concealment of chemical and safety information.