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Indoor Air Quality

Legal liability related to indoor air quality is broad and rapidly changing.  Our clients are constantly facing new laws, regulations and industry standards.  The increased public attention that indoor air quality issues have received impacts our clients both positively and negatively.  Although these changes have created new business opportunities for our clients, they also present new challenges and liabilities.  Proactive risk management is mandatory in these changing times.

We represent indoor air quality clients in two major capacities.  First, we counsel new and established companies (involved in manufacturing or service-oriented aspects of indoor air quality) about protective legal planning and marketing opportunities.  Second, we prosecute and defend indoor air quality litigation.




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