Dicke, Kristine L.

With 30 years of experience in environmental law, Steve Giblin brings litigation, counseling, and transactional skills to serve clients' needs for cost-effective solutions to complex environmental challenges. Steve has provided these services in a variety of contexts and across various industry settings.

In the area of counseling, Steve assists clients in developing strategies for addressing historical environmental conditions and securing regulatory approval for cost-effective approaches. His litigation experience includes criminal and civil environmental enforcement actions as well as claims seeking recoveries for workplace exposures to toxic substances and costs for environmental response actions. Steve has conducted internal investigations regarding possible criminal violations of environmental laws. He has developed and challenged expert witness testimony in the areas of hydrogeology, contaminant fate and transport, toxicology, epidemiology, and industrial hygiene. Steve advises buyers and sellers of businesses regarding successful approaches to allocating liability for environmental conditions associated with historical industrial operations. He has negotiated uniquely tailored environmental insurance policy terms and conditions to facilitate the completion of transactions. Steve also has extensive experience in the handling of environmental claims in bankruptcy proceedings. Representative clients in recent public matters include Blue Point Capital Partners, Brush Wellman, Dana Corporation, OM Group, The Riverside Company, The Scott Fetzer Company, and Textron.

Steve has been recognized in Ohio Super Lawyers as a result of a peer review process and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America under environmental law. He has lectured recently on responding to government criminal investigations and corporate environmental disclosures.