Lindsay Brown handles complex, high-profile litigation for clients involved in environmental and commercial disputes. Ms. Brown has a wide range of experience from representing major petroleum and chemical companies in billion-dollar litigations to efficiently resolving matters without the need for litigation. Her roster of clients have included major corporations such as Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Sunoco, Inc., Exxon Mobil Corporation, Conrail, Inc., LUKOIL, Aramark Corporation and other public and private companies.
As an experienced environmental practitioner, Ms. Brown handles everything from environmental contamination cases and toxic tort claims to advising clients with respect to agency investigations, regulatory compliance, management of environmental liabilities, remediation of contaminated sites and the purchase and sale of property with environmental liabilities. She is the firm’s go-to attorney for matters involving per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (known as PFAS).
Ms. Brown also has significant experience handling commercial litigation matters, including defending class action claims, complex contractual disputes and high-stakes injunction claims. More recently, Ms. Brown has honed her litigation and trial strategy skills by managing the nationwide litigation docket for one of the firm’s largest clients. She has developed a keen awareness for balancing legal and business considerations and advising clients on ways to avoid litigation, manage risk and, most importantly, manage the “bottom line.”
Areas of Practice
Environmental Litigation
Commercial Litigation
- Regulatory Investigation and Compliance
- Energy Law
Admissions
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Education
- Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 2009
- Senior Editor, Drexel Law Review - University of Pennsylvania, B.S., Biology, cum laude, 2002
Experience
- Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2022-present
- Special Counsel, 2016-2021 Archer & Greiner P.C.
- Senior Associate, 2009-2016Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge
- Biological Technician, 2003-2005
Professional Activities
- Society of Women Environmental Professionals
- Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Inn of Court, Executive Board
- American Bar Association
- Section of Environment, Energy and Resources
Selected Publications
- Co-author, "DOJ Announces Comprehensive Environmental Justice Enforcement Strategy," Duane Morris Alert, May 17, 2022
- Author, "Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): The Rising Tide of Regulation," The Legal Intelligencer, July 23, 2021
Author, "PFAS—Growing Regulation and Liabilities for the Regulated Community," The Legal Intelligencer, July 26, 2019
- Co-author, "Environmental Cleanup and Recovery for Fraudulent Transfers," Today's General Counsel, June 2016
- Co-author, Modifying Tidal Flow Restoration Techniques to Balance Long-Term Salt Marsh Habitat Improvement with Severe Short-Term Impacts to Breeding Salt Marsh Sharp-Tailed Sparrows (Interim Report), 2006
Selected Speaking Engagements
- Panelist, “PFAS: Responding to Orders to Investigate and Increasing State and Federal Scrutiny” Strafford CLE Webinar, April 12, 2022
- Panelist, “UPDATE – PFAS: Responding to Orders to Investigate and Increasing State and Federal Scrutiny,” Strafford CLE Webinar, April 27, 2021
- Panelist, "PFAS: Responding to Orders to Investigate and Increasing State and Federal Scrutiny," Strafford CLE Webinar, April 8, 2020
- Co-presenter, "'Toxic Soup': Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water & Future Litigation Challenges," Chemistry Council of New Jersey Annual Spring Conference, May 2014
- Presenter, "Status of Invasive Plant Species on Thirteen Wildlife Refuges in Region 5," Region 5 Invasive Species Workshop, Washington, D.C., 2006
- Co-presenter, "Sudden Wetland Dieback Proceedings and Recommendations," Society of Wetland Scientists, 2005