Taft partner Robert A. Bilott continues to be interviewed and featured as a speaker on drinking water contamination. Bilott, who serves as co-lead counsel for the plaintiff’s altering committee handling litigation against DuPont, has been in the spotlight since The New York Times Magazine dubbed him “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” in an article published on Jan. 6, 2016. On Feb. 13, 2017, DuPont publicly disclosed that it has reached a settlement in principle to resolve the C-8 personal injury, multi-district litigation now pending in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, for $670.7 million.

Recent Publications

• “Attorney and Fire Chief Take on Cancer Causing Chemicals” Firefighter Nation
• “Row over water contamination in US has NZ implications” MSN News
• “The EPA’s ‘Leadership Summit’ on PFOA Pollution Will Exclude Victims and Community Groups“ The Intercept
• “Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know Chemicals in Teflon are Poisoning Waterways & Firefighters” Democracy Now!

Upcoming Events

• July 12 – Bilott will present during Thomas More College’s Summer Seminar Series. He will speak to the legal, regulatory and scientific challenges associated with PFAS contamination in the Ohio River Basin.
• Oct. 18 – Bilott will be the keynote speaker at the ORBCRE Symposium and ORBA Summit. 

Bilott is a member of Taft’s Environmental, Litigation and Product Liability and Personal Injury groups. He represents a diverse range of clients on a wide variety of matters involving federal, state and local environmental laws and related litigation.