ENVIRONMENTAL
DISPUTE RESOLUTION EXPERIENCE

Mr. Polsky has extensive experience litigating, mediating and arbitrating complex commercial litigation including environmental cases. He also serves as stipulated fact finder, special referee, arbitrator and mediator. Cases have run the gamut from toxic exposure, "superfund," remediation and sale of contaminated property. He has resolved specialized issues in context of toxic analysis and remediation.

 Mr. Polsky utilizes a technique referred to as "Risk Based Facilitative Mediation." This provides parties an opportunity to present issues in a facilitated forum and reduces the emotional reaction that often prevents resolution of these matters. In private caucus, Mr. Polsky encourages a free and frank discussion of risks and costs of proceeding through the litigation process. This permits "venting" of personal concerns which may be impeding resolution and evaluation of all issues.

REPRESENTATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL CASES HANDLED BY MR. POLSKY

• Sub surface effluent seepage
• Fuel tank spillage
• Asbestos exposure and asbestosis
• Land fill contamination in context of planned residential development
  Exposure to DDT. Degeneration of the autoimmune system and eventual death of 45 year old father of three
• Toxic contaminant remediation and removal

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE

Mr. Polsky is a sought after negotiation skills trainer and has lectured throughout the United States. He is an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School, where he teaches a course he designed on ADR and negotiation, and at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, where he teaches courses on mediation and arbitration in the LLM program. He has resolved thousands of complex commercial and serious injury disputes and was named one of the top 20 mediators and arbitrators in California by the Daily Journal. Local bar association annual reviews consistently give Mr. Polsky high marks for fairness as an arbitrator and tenacity and commitment as a mediator.