text: Eugene E. Mathews focuses on environmental, toxic tort, class action, occupational safety and health, and land use litigation. He also has significant general commercial litigation experience, and he has represented local governments on a wide range of matters.
  For well over two decades, Matt has represented clients in the solid waste management, chemical and animal agriculture industries, among others. Matt has handled cases in all levels of the Virginia court system and in California, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah and West Virginia.
  Prior to joining the Firm, Matt served as Law Clerk to United States District Court Judge Nauman S. Scott.
  EXPERIENCE :
  Defense of Smithfield Foods and its subsidiaries in numerous mass tort, class action, and environmental citizen suits in Missouri, North Carolina, Florida and Utah, relating to allegations of personal injury, property damage, and environmental degradation arising from the company’s farming operations.
  Representation of DuPont in defense of an environmental civil suit brought by the Sierra Club and NRDC relating to historic mercury deposits in the South River in Virginia. Attained a unique settlement involving a six-year study of the mercury issues.
  Representation of a group of agricultural concerns, challenging a county’s ban on the land application of biosolids. The Virginia Supreme Court overturned the trial court’s decision and sustained our client’s challenge striking down the local law.
  Defense of Waste Management in a number of land use, environmental and permitting claims concerning the development of a major port for the transshipment of municipal solid waste from barges to a nearby regional landfill. All of these claims were defeated at the trial court level and sustained on appeal.
  Education :
  Tulane University Law School, JD, Member, Order of the Coif, 1993
  University of Virginia, BA, 1990
  Admissions :
  District of Columbia
  Virginia
  U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
  U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
  U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
  Affiliations :
  Member, Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, 1993-present, American Bar Association
  Member; Environmental and Litigation Sections, Virginia Bar Association
  Member; Executive Committee, Environmental Section, Bench/Bar Committee, Richmond Bar Association
  Member, National Committee on University Resources, University of Virginia, 2009-present
  Member, Benefactors Society Board, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, 2008-present
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