Steven H. Goldberg

Steven Goldberg has served as one of the leading environmental litigation and compliance attorneys in California for more than thirty five years.

Known as a strategic, tenacious, and responsive advocate with exceptional communication skills, Steven negotiates and resolves complex disputes, often selected by other attorneys and their clients as common counsel or liaison counsel for multiple-party lawsuits. With a special focus on groundwater contamination and CERCLA matters, he has handled some of the largest contamination cases in California. He has won dismissals, handled appeals before the Ninth Circuit, and settled dozens of cases through mediation. In such cases, Steven has worked with technical experts throughout the United States on MTBE, solvents, perchlorate, PCBs, asbestos, natural resource damages, and sediment contamination issues. Clients appreciate his ability to present complex environmental technical issues in a direct yet compelling manner.

Steven’s clients include Fortune 500 corporations with business interests in California, and other regionally-based, publicly traded and private companies. He successfully represents and defends multi-million dollar actions, which include government enforcement, cost recovery claims, allocation litigation, toxic tort actions, and multi-party contamination matters involving chemical and petroleum facilities, forest products, and agribusiness companies, owners of large tracts of land, landfill and waste management companies, defense contractors, energy industry facilities, dry cleaners, and public entities. Steven also provides compliance advice and counsel to many companies on regulatory issues and uses his extensive network of contacts in the state capitol to advise clients on cutting edge environmental issues.