Doran, Francis M

Tom Donnelly has practiced environmental and insurance coverage law for more than 20 years. Tom represents clients in environmental litigation, toxic tort, and administrative proceedings; provides environmental compliance counseling and due diligence/transactional support; and assists clients in securing defense and indemnity from their liability insurers. His environmental and insurance coverage clients have included high tech companies, auto manufacturers, aerospace, energy, oil and gas, and metals and mining companies, utilities, equipment manufacturers, food and consumer product manufacturers, financial institutions, retailers, and real property owners and developers. Tom has appeared in all federal district courts in California, the Ninth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, and California trial and appellate courts.

Tom's recent representations include: Aerojet-General Corp. (aerospace) in environmental litigation and land use matters; Lennar Corp., Gruma Corp. (food manufacturer), and Perfect Equipment (wheel weight manufacturer), in Proposition 65 lawsuits; Firestone Building Products, Nvidia (visual computing), and Procter & Gamble, in environmental compliance matters; Sutter Home Winery in securing environmental permits for a new winery; and SanDisk (data storage) and Wells Fargo Bank in environmental due diligence related to real property transactions. For Pacific Gas & Electric Company, after a seven-week trial, Tom secured a verdict that a policy issued by AIG affiliates covered property damage claims (totaling $24 million) asserted against PG&E.

Tom is listed in Chambers USA as one of the leading environmental attorneys in the state of California and has been recognized as a leading environmental attorney by several other trade publications.