1,2,3-TCP Litigation
To learn more about Robins Borghei LLP’s leadership and success representing public water suppliers affected by 1,2,3-trichloropropane contamination, please click here.
To read Todd Robins’ article in the California Water Journal, titled Rural Water Agencies Impacted by 1,2,3-TCP, the Next Contaminant to be Regulated in California, Can Sue Responsible Parties to Recover Costs, please click here.
Water utilities should not have to choose between clean water and affordable water; they have a right to both.
At Robins Borghei LLP, our mission is to fight to uphold this unassailable principle, and to ensure that polluters pay for the damage they cause to our clients’ precious drinking water resources.
Robins Borghei LLP is one of the few law firms in the United States dedicated to assisting public water suppliers in litigation and advocacy before regulatory agencies aimed at recovering contamination response costs from responsible parties. We are uniquely qualified to guide cities, water districts, water companies, and other well-owners through the complex and sometimes daunting issues water contamination cases present, bringing an unparalleled depth and breadth of experience to this work.
“We were the innocent victim, as we didn’t put that stuff in our water … and Robins Borghei gets that.”
With our exceptional understanding of the water business, Robins Borghei LLP offers a full range of legal services, and effective representation in both routine and complex legal matters, to municipalities, special districts, mutual water companies, and investor-owned utilities. In addition, Robins Borghei LLP handles a variety of environmental, water, and property damage matters for private property owners.
Experience Does Matter
Collectively, the attorneys of Robins Borghei LLP have:
- More than two decades of experience, know-how, and success prosecuting groundwater contamination claims on behalf of water suppliers;
- Extensive trial experience, with more than two hundred cases taken to verdict;
- A wide-ranging history of effective representation on behalf of more than 100 public entity clients; and
- Substantive expertise in environmental law, safe drinking water regulation and compliance, the Porter Cologne Act, the Brown Act, Conflict of Interest (AB1234), Proposition 218, the Public Records Act, water rights, local agency formation, labor and employment law, eminent domain, real property, and tort defense.
“The attorneys from Robins Borghei brought unsurpassed, hands-on experience to our case.”
Putting Our Clients First
We provide the full range of legal services you need to ensure that your complex water quality, contamination, property damage, water rights, and utility plant contract issues are resolved successfully. And, to every case we handle, we bring both a mission-driven intensity and desire to win, and an unswerving dedication to meeting our clients’ needs.
A Deep Bench
The main office of Robins Borghei LLP is located in San Francisco, with two additional offices located in the Central Coast area of California (San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles).
Through our two Central Coast offices, we can also bring to bear the added resources and expertise of our sister law firm – Adamski Moroski Madden Cumberland & Green LLP. Ranked one of California’s top law firms from 2013 – 2015 (having achieved the prestigious AV Preeminent rating, the highest rating in legal ability and ethical standards), AMMCG delivers a diverse array of litigation and transactional services to clients. Feel free to visit the AMMCG website to find out more.
When it comes to cost-recovery and water-related litigation, put the experience, client-focused dedication, and deep-bench strength of Robins Borghei LLP to work for you.