Lori A. Mills

handles complex, multiparty environmental litigation and also advises clients with respect to the environmental implications of real estate and corporate transactions. She has extensive experience in environmental compliance and enforcement actions; soil, groundwater and sediment contamination matters; industrial site remediation; Superfund compliance and cost recovery; private party cost recovery contribution and allocation proceedings; land purchase and brownfields development; and natural resource damages. Ms. Mills’ environmental litigation experience includes cost recovery under various state statutes, allocation proceedings and toxic tort litigation. She also participates in strategic planning to manage high-profile environmental cases.

Ms. Mills is a 1988 graduate, with honors, of Rutgers University School of Law and a 1985 magna cum laude graduate of Temple University.

Resume

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2017-present
•Drinker Biddle & Reath
- Partner, 1995-2017
•Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Sheikman & Cohen
- Associate, 1989-1995
•State of New Jersey, Superior Court
- Law Clerk, 1988-1989

Honors and Awards

•Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2011-2020

Selected Publications

•Author, Updated NJ Site Remediation Law Makes Public Outreach Key, Law360, September 17, 2019

•Author, The New Jersey Site Remediation Reform Act - Model 2.0, Duane Morris Alert, August 29, 2019