Pam helps her clients tackle water, waste, and historic contamination regulatory issues and litigation.
Pam offers her clients the experience and judgment from decades of environmental counseling and litigation. She currently co-leads the firm-wide Environmental Practice Group, and formerly has managed Beveridge & Diamond's Baltimore office and led the firm’s Contaminated Properties practice.
Pam focuses her practice on solid and hazardous waste management, contaminated property remediation, water discharges, chemicals regulation, and project development. She counsels clients on environmental regulatory compliance, permitting, and risk management. She also has experience litigating permitting and compliance issues as well as common law claims. She also offers experience with the overlay of bankruptcy and environmental liabilities.
Regarding contaminated properties, Pam represents clients on hazardous substance and petroleum remediation issues arising under state law, CERCLA, RCRA, and FUSRAP. She assists real estate buyers and sellers with environmental due diligence, negotiating environmental liability contractual provisions, and identifying and implementing brownfields risk management strategies. For example, she has helped her clients to assess when and how to pursue state voluntary cleanup programs, and the circumstances under which a purchaser may avail itself of a CERCLA defense for innocent landowners.
Pam's clients have included governmental entities and businesses in the chemical, power generation, manufacturing, land development, biosolids, solid waste treatment, petroleum, retail, and beverage industries, as well as individuals and non-profit organizations.
Before joining B&D, Pam served as a Maryland Assistant Attorney General representing the Maryland Department of the Environment, where in 1997 she received the Attorney General's Exceptional Service Award. She also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Joseph H. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Pam is a former Chair of the Maryland State Bar Association Environmental Law Section Council and former President of the Women's Law Center of Maryland. She has also served on other nonprofit boards.
