Taft partner Robert A. Bilott has received extensive international media coverage following the Right Livelihood Award ceremony. Bilott was named a laureate of the 2017 Right Livelihood Award, an award widely referred to as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” He received the honorary award for “exposing a decades-long history of chemical pollution, winning long-sought justice for the victims, and setting a precedent for effective regulation on hazardous substances.”

Recent International Media Coverage

• “70.000 Davids gegen einen Goliah Alternativer Nobelpreis ehrt Trinkwasser-Anwalt” Berliner Zeitung
• “The 2017 Good Life Prize, Popularly Known as the Nobel Alternative Award, is Released at the Vasa Museum” Greenpost
• “Two lawyers, ‘Nobel laureate’” Avocatura
• “Khadija Ismayilova, Yetnebersh Nigussie: the winners of the ‘Nobel alternative’ 2017” Les Nouvelles
• “Environmental advocate receives alternative Nobel Prize” Jusicre
• “Alternative Nobel Prizes” Halo noviny
• “Award ‘alternative Nobel’ to journalists and activists” Cultura
• “Alternative Nobel Laureates may not be from Azerbaijan” Blesk
• “Trager des Alternativen Nobelpreises nehmen Auszeichnung entgegen” Blick

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.

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