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Mr. Schikora has extensive experience representing both private and public clients in all aspects of environmental law throughout the Midwest, with a focus on corporate and real estate transactions involving contaminated property, remediation and reuse of contaminated properties, and cost recovery, natural resource damage, and toxic-tort litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Schikora also represents clients in numerous regulatory matters including air quality, wetland, OSHA, and hazardous waste issues.
Before joining Dykema, Mr. Schikora was a law clerk with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to his legal career, he was an Environmental Engineer for Chevron.
Experience
Assist clients in obtaining risk-based closures for sites of environmental contamination
Provide environmental support for various real estate and corporate transactions, including one that involved more that 80 different properties in the U.S. and Canada
Negotiated civil penalties and consent decrees for clients cited for air permit violations
Successfully defended a manufacturing client in a toxic tort class action lawsuit
Obtained more than $2 million of Clean Michigan Initiative Grant funding for municipal clients. | 