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Evan Neustater is an associate in the firm’s Environmental Practice. He regularly works on a broad range of environmental regulatory, litigation, and enforcement matters. Evan’s controversy-related work focuses on chemical regulation, compensation and enforcement under FIFRA, food ingredient work under FFDCA, and civil litigation under CERCLA. His counseling practice includes TSCA and FIFRA compliance and data compensation analysis. He also assists clients in the chemicals, building materials, consumer products, cosmetics and medical device industries in meeting compliance challenges, including working with clients to design and implement value chain visibility programs.

Prior to GT, Evan served as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in the Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics, and Training. He provided counsel to agency management and federal agents regarding environmental and criminal statutes involved in EPA investigations, prosecutions, and administrative rulemakings. He reviewed prosecution memoranda for legal sufficiency prior to charging defendants, drafted memoranda of law concerning enforcement matters under federal environmental laws, and conducted proffer sessions with criminal defendants to facilitate plea negotiations.

Capabilities

Experience

  • Attorney-Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics, and Training, 2024-2025
  • Extern, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Law and Policy Section, 2021
  • Law Student Intern, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 2019

Credentials

Education
  • J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan Law School
    • Notes Editor, Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law
  • B.A., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
Admissions
  • District of Columbia
  • Florida

Related Capabilities

Environmental