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Richard E. Greenberg

Richard E. Greenberg
Officer

314-516-2687 [Direct]
314-241-9090 [Main]
314-241-8624 [Fax]

reg@greensfelder.com

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Mr. Greenberg is an Officer in the Litigation and Environmental Practice Groups. Mr. Greenberg represents clients in a broad range of commercial and regulatory litigation and counseling. Mr. Greenberg has handled extensive litigation in federal and state courts and also provides general counseling services to his corporate clients.

Mr. Greenberg’s practice has a strong emphasis in environmental litigation. He has represented petroleum refiners, demolition and sanitary landfills, treatment, storage and disposal sites, hazardous waste processors and transporters, fuel suppliers, cement manufacturers and other private and public companies in a broad range of environmental litigation involving environmental compliance, CERCLA, RCRA, TSCA, SARA, debarment and related issues. Mr. Greenberg has also handled numerous administrative and civil litigation proceedings with the United States Environmental Protection Agency and state regulatory agencies. Mr. Greenberg has also specialized in defending allegations of environmental crimes.

A substantial aspect of Mr. Greenberg’s practice also involves complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts and Mr. Greenberg has tried numerous commercial lawsuits to verdict.

Mr. Greenberg has defended and advised businesses and individuals implicated or charged with federal regulatory or commercial crimes. Cases involve representation of targets, subjects and witnesses for environmental, antitrust, health care, bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, transportation, contracting and other federal offenses.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Greenberg represented federal regulatory agencies in litigation throughout the United States as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Division of the Justice Department. From 1986-1988, Mr. Greenberg served as an Assistant Director in the Civil Division. Mr. Greenberg was a recipient of the Department of Justice’s John Marshall Award.

Mr. Greenberg also served as an Adjunct Professor of Trial Practice at St. Louis University Law School from 1988-1990.

Every case must be judged on its own merits. Past results afford no guarantee of future results.

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Education


B.A., Brown University, 1976, magna cum laude
M.B.A., Columbia University, 1980, Beta Gamma Sigma
J.D., Columbia University, 1980, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

State Bars


  • District Of Columbia
  • Missouri
  • New York

Memberships


  • Missouri Bar
  • New York Bar
  • D.C. Bar
  • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

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