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Thomas Vorhies, JD

J.S. Held Examines Multifaceted, Global Business Impacts of Tariff and Trade Policies

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Thomas Vorhies is an environmental attorney with over ten years of experience in the legal field, five of which were focused on litigation consulting and expert testimony support. He specializes in supporting experts retained for superfund allocation, natural resource damages assessment, toxic torts, legacy industrial contamination litigation, environmental class actions, and insurance recovery/defense.

Thomas serves in a regulatory research and analysis role within the litigation & advisory services group. His expert topics in this group include liability assessment, management, and remediation. Thomas has a background in government and regulatory mechanisms, adaptation, mitigation, and sustainability initiatives.

He has co-authored dozens of expert and technical reports. He specializes in legal and regulatory research, standard of care application, data analysis, legal communication, quality assurance and control, and document management. Thomas has extensive experience taking technical and scientific opinions and fitting them into a legal framework to be argued before a trier of fact. He has thus far supported expert witnesses on more than 40 different matters.

Key Expertise

  • Brownfield Redevelopment & Remediation
  • Ecological Assessment & Remediation
  • Environmental Investigations
  • Environmental Liability Assessment
  • Environmental Litigation Support
  • Environmental Remediation
  • Environmental Risk Management
  • Groundwater Remediation
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP)
  • PFAS Assessment & Remediation
  • Soil Remediation
  • Environmental Due Diligence
  • Natural Resource Damages

Professional Affiliations/Memberships

  • American Bar Association (ABA), Member (2019 – Present)
  • Environmental Law Institute (ELI), Member (2019 – Present)
  • Pace Energy and Climate Center, Member (2014 – Present)
  • Dartmouth Lawyers Association, Member (2013 – Present)

J.S. Held is recognized as an ENR Top 200 Environmental Consulting Firm and industry leader in the Verdantix Green Quadrant for Sustainability & ESG Consulting.