Litigation Support

First Environment’s expertise in forensic environmental investigations, our in-depth knowledge of process operations and over 20 years of environmental engineering and regulatory experience ensures that we provide case winning legal support to our clients.
 

Our legal support team recognizes that effective litigation support encompasses more than technical expertise. Successful support requires experts that can educate the legal team, contribute to developing effective trial strategies, and present the facts concisely and believably. Our team helps lawyers develop a working knowledge of complex scientific, technical and regulatory issues. We possess the crucial ability to quickly review and assimilate large quantities of data and information, identify gaps in the information with regard to legal strategy, and develop approaches to fill those gaps. We help structure and organize technical conclusions so that they appropriately support the legal approach and can be clearly understood by the trier-of-fact.

At trial, we understand our job is to make a difficult subject come alive so that the trier-of-fact not only understands, but enjoys the testimony. We accomplish this by simplifying the background data, utilizing illustrations and videos, and rendering technical words, acronyms and difficult concepts understandable.

We support our testimony using demonstrative exhibits that are created in-house. We have successfully used video presentations, diagrams, multilayered cross-sectional maps, aerial photographs and 3-D demonstrations.