David G. Mandelbaum Adjunct Associate Professor
Community and Regional Planning
David G. Mandelbaum is a partner
in the Litigation Department and
Partner-in-charge of the
Environmental Group. Mr.
Mandelbaum divides his time
between the firm’s Philadelphia
and Baltimore offices.
Mr. Mandelbaum represents clients
in a full range of environmental
matters. For example:
he serves as lead counsel for
different industrial clients in
two natural resources damages
and contaminated sediment
remediation matters which the
federal government consider
among their most significant;
he has litigated
misrepresentation, breach of
contract, and statutory claims
concerning environmental
conditions arising after
acquisitions and divestitures;
he has advised clients and
litigated matters involving
environmental aspects of land
use, such as public trust,
wetlands regulation, “sprawl,”
“environmental justice,” and
complex urban brownfields;
he has represented industrial
clients in wastewater and solid
waste permitting, permit
appeals, and enforcement
actions;
he has represented clients in
scores of Superfund matters
involving litigation of one of
the only multi-generation
landfill cases to be tried to a
judgment:
he has advised clients on
environmental issues presented
by hundreds of transactions.
Among his publications are:
Does the Section 107/Section 113
Choice Affect Allocation in
CERCLA Actions?, Toxics L. Rep.
(BNA) 979 (Jan. 6, 1999);
Toward a Superfund Cost
Allocation Principle, 3 The
Envtl. Lawyer 117 (1996);
Are NOAA’s Natural Resources
Damages Assessment Regulations a
Useful New Model?, 5 Envtl.
Regul. & Permitting No. 4 at 3
(1996);
Crossfire on Contribution: A
Rejoinder to John Clewett, 28
Chem. Waste Litig. Rep. 869
(1994);
Superfund Reform and Old
Industrial Sites, 3 J. Envtl.
Regul. 369 (1994);
Professional Responsibility
Issues in Pennsylvania
Environmental Practice: 1.
Conflicts in Superfund and 2.
Dealing with Former Government
Lawyers, 12 Temple Envtl. L. &
Tech. J. 57 (1993).
Mr.
Mandelbaum is also an Adjunct
Professor at the Temple University
School of Law, where he teaches
"Environmental Law" and "Advanced
Environmental Law - Superfund." He
serves as Chair of the
Pennsylvania Bar Association's
Environmental, Mineral, and
Natural Resources Law Section. He
is also a committee chair of the
American Bar Association Section
on Environment, Energy, and
Resources, and a member of the
environmental sections of the
Florida Bar and Maryland State Bar
Association.
Mr. Mandelbaum received his A.B.,
summa cum laude, from Harvard
College in 1980 and his J.D.,
magna cum laude, from Harvard Law
School in 1983. He served as law
clerk to the Honorable Louis H.
Pollak, United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
