Cindy Karlson’s practice is in environmental and land use law, and includes compliance counseling, transactional work, administrative matters, and litigation. Cindy counsels clients in permitting, enforcement, and transactional matters under federal, state and local environmental permitting, health and safety, hazardous waste, air and water pollution laws. She handles environmental issues for a variety of industries, lenders, commercial developers/property managers, and insurers relating to corporate and real estate transactions. Her work involves pre-transaction counseling and the structuring of deals, developing risk management strategies, negotiating contractual language concerning environmental risk and allocation of liability for known and unknown conditions; and environmental due diligence. Cindy assists clients in the negotiation and performance of environmental site assessments, audits, and technical consultant contracts for the investigation and remediation of contaminated properties. She also has experience with environmental and toxic tort/class action litigation, in addition to Superfund matters/negotiations, natural resource damage law and compliance counseling for the maritime industry.
