Law Office: Richard S. Baron
Rich is a Founding Member of Foley, Baron, Metzger & Juip. He has a national civil litigation exercise with special emphasis on environmental litigation, merchandise liability and chemical publicity topics. He has good sized experience in spill reaction and forensic analysis at historical sites of contamination. His experience additionally consists of property transactions together with environmental due diligence, dangerous waste, CERCLA and RCRA problems, and Michigan’s Natural Resources Environmental Protection Act (NREPA). Rich’s enormous practice additionally consists of commercial enterprise issues and business litigation, production law, mass torts, product liability and aviation regulation.
After practising regulation for greater than 30 years,…
After practising regulation for greater than 30 years,…
Rich is a Founding Member of Foley, Baron, Metzger & Juip. He has a countrywide civil litigation practice with unique emphasis on environmental litigation, products liability and chemical exposure subjects. He has full-size experience in spill response and forensic evaluation at historic websites of infection. His experience additionally consists of belongings transactions consisting of environmental due diligence, hazardous waste, CERCLA and RCRA troubles, and Michigan’s Natural Resources Environmental Protection Act (NREPA). Rich’s tremendous practice additionally includes enterprise troubles and commercial litigation, creation law, mass torts, product liability and aviation law.
After practising law for greater than 30 years, Rich has developed the one of a kind capability to quickly get to the coronary heart of the problem, discover and propose a method and combine his client's goals into the route ahead. He is often complimented through clients for his capacity to make complex medical and technical problems simple and understandable. He has observed that doing away with the noise and honing in on what truely subjects is a key to a hit outcomes. He believes that this approach saves time, cash and heartache and resolves the venture or litigation. An educational background in the environmental place (he likes technology), offers a solid backdrop for his practice.
Rich is the previous Chairperson of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, wherein he served at the environmental Law Section Council for decades. He has been the editor of the Michigan Environmental Law Journal and the American Bar Association, Environmental Litigation Committee Newsletter. Rich is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (CLM) and consists of 's "A-V" score. He has served as an accessory professor of Environmental Law and Aviation Law on the Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
Rich has served as lead counsel for an industry leader in chlorinated solvent remember, coping with merchandise liability, administrative and litigated matters from California to Texas to the U.S. Virgin Islands. As he instructed a consumer as soon as at a first-rate groundwater contamination website in Wisconsin, "I need to be as cushty in trekking boots as I am in wingtips." He believes that sitting in the workplace isn't any replacement for "boots at the ground," whilst warranted, to assess the contentions being made, perceive change theories and in knowledge capability regions of challenge higher than the competition.
In addition to creating the complex easy, Rich believes the info count. After problems with their insurance carrier, the CEO of massive solvent recovery system organisation became prepared no longer to love Rich while he was delivered in to guard a critical damage declare concerning his device. However, when Rich commenced asking detailed instrumentation questions and discussing ability weak spots inside the allegations, the purchaser quickly modified his preconceived critiques and trusted Rich for the successful handling all in their environmental paintings for over 25 years.
Because now not all topics are litigated, Rich believes that obtaining to “yes” is critical to resolution whether in allow negotiation, a real property transaction or settlement issue. Rich represented an global manufacturer in a purchaser settlement dispute that threatened extensive present and future commercial enterprise and cash drift. He was able to perceive a contract provision between the two agencies which became the stability of strength absolutely in his purchaser's choose and taken the dispute to a fast decision. Not most effective did the patron maintain the business, however remained the customer’s sole source as nicely.
After practising law for greater than 30 years, Rich has developed the one of a kind capability to quickly get to the coronary heart of the problem, discover and propose a method and combine his client's goals into the route ahead. He is often complimented through clients for his capacity to make complex medical and technical problems simple and understandable. He has observed that doing away with the noise and honing in on what truely subjects is a key to a hit outcomes. He believes that this approach saves time, cash and heartache and resolves the venture or litigation. An educational background in the environmental place (he likes technology), offers a solid backdrop for his practice.
Rich is the previous Chairperson of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, wherein he served at the environmental Law Section Council for decades. He has been the editor of the Michigan Environmental Law Journal and the American Bar Association, Environmental Litigation Committee Newsletter. Rich is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (CLM) and consists of 's "A-V" score. He has served as an accessory professor of Environmental Law and Aviation Law on the Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
Rich has served as lead counsel for an industry leader in chlorinated solvent remember, coping with merchandise liability, administrative and litigated matters from California to Texas to the U.S. Virgin Islands. As he instructed a consumer as soon as at a first-rate groundwater contamination website in Wisconsin, "I need to be as cushty in trekking boots as I am in wingtips." He believes that sitting in the workplace isn't any replacement for "boots at the ground," whilst warranted, to assess the contentions being made, perceive change theories and in knowledge capability regions of challenge higher than the competition.
In addition to creating the complex easy, Rich believes the info count. After problems with their insurance carrier, the CEO of massive solvent recovery system organisation became prepared no longer to love Rich while he was delivered in to guard a critical damage declare concerning his device. However, when Rich commenced asking detailed instrumentation questions and discussing ability weak spots inside the allegations, the purchaser quickly modified his preconceived critiques and trusted Rich for the successful handling all in their environmental paintings for over 25 years.
Because now not all topics are litigated, Rich believes that obtaining to “yes” is critical to resolution whether in allow negotiation, a real property transaction or settlement issue. Rich represented an global manufacturer in a purchaser settlement dispute that threatened extensive present and future commercial enterprise and cash drift. He was able to perceive a contract provision between the two agencies which became the stability of strength absolutely in his purchaser's choose and taken the dispute to a fast decision. Not most effective did the patron maintain the business, however remained the customer’s sole source as nicely.
