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

• “The White House P.R. ‘Nightmare’ That Never Came” The New Republic
• “Hidden studies from decades ago could have curbed PFAS problem: Scientist” Environmental Health News

Upcoming Events

• Oct. 5 – Bilott will participate on a panel discussing PFAS water contamination during the Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference in Flint, Mich.
• Oct. 18 – Bilott will be the keynote speaker at the 2018 ORBCRE Symposium and ORBA Summit. The theme for the symposium is: Partnerships and collaboration toward a single voice for the Ohio Rive Basin.
• July 23-36, 2019 – Bilott will be the keynote speaker at the 3rd World Congress for Environmental History, held in Florianopolis, Brazil.

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.