E. Michael Thomas, Esq.

• Sophisticated Problem Solving
• Big Firm Experience and Credentials
• Small Firm Billing Rates

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Practice Areas: Environmental & Superfund; Zoning, Land Use & Real Estate; Litigation Support & Expert Witness; ADR & Allocation Services; Technology & General Practice.

Practice Profile: Problem solving, dispute resolution and risk management on behalf of businesses, individuals, governmental bodies and citizen groups. Experienced as government lawyer and manager, mediator, expert witness and partner in two major law firms.

Value Statement: My practice provides the benefits of sophisticated problem solving and large law firm experience without the expensive overhead. I look forward to applying my practice to help advance your opportunities or, if circumstances require, to help solve your problems.

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Current Highlights:

TIME Magazine article, Economy Cleanup: Clawback to the Future, 1/8/2009, featured my proposal to fund federal bailouts of toxic financial entities using "clawbacks" modeled on Superfund polluter pays liability concept for cleaning up toxic waste sites. See my articles Use Polluter Pays Principle to Fund Bailout, Use Clawbacks to Fund Wall Street Bailouts. Watch this website for further articles and news of any policy follow-up!;

Deemed "most helpful expert" in defense verdict finding that defendants were not liable to indemnify plaintiffs for up to $25 million in Superfund cleanup costs;

Zoning and land use permitting actions including applications involving statute exempting religious organizations from most zoning requirements, representing impacted abutter in site planning review of proposed Planned Residential Development;

Environmental enforcement and compliance representation including coordinating counsel for PRP groups of federal and state Superfund sites in New England, compliance activities concerning inadvertently mixed sanitary and industrial wastewater, defending federal stormwater discharge enforcement action and defending local and state enforcement of wetlands Order of Conditions;

Recent expert witness project concerning liability allocation for cleanup of historic contamination at municipal airport also used as military air base and concerning allocation of responsibility for differing air contaminants emitted by separate industrial facilities adjacent to impacted neighborhoods;

Recent expert witness project concerning allocation of responsibility for differing air contaminants emitted by separate industrial facilities adjacent to impacted neighborhoods;

Chairman, Zoning Board of Appeals, Wayland, Massachusetts.

Three year assistant coach and team sponsor of Wayland 2007 Babe Ruth League World Series Champions, AL Central Division. See the 2007 Babe Ruth Champion Wayland Cardinals.

Member, 2007 EMASS Senior Softball American League Championship Team. See the 2007 AL Champs.