About Robert
Partner Robb Fox has a diverse practice involving compliance counseling, litigation and transactional work for clients in the waste, chemical manufacturing and development industries and on behalf of cities and municipalities. He is known nationally for his work under the federal Superfund law including handling many high profile Superfund matters such as the Keystone Landfill matter, featured on 60 Minutes, and the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek sites. He regularly litigates Superfund issues of first impression at the trial and appellate levels in multiple jurisdictions.Robb’s litigation experience extends to superfund cost recovery, class action and toxic tort defense, trials and appeals before federal and state courts and administrative tribunals. He also represents local, regional and national clients in the environmental aspects of business transactions, ranging from redeveloping brownfields (he assisted in the drafting of the 2002 brownfields amendment to the federal Superfund law) to managing liabilities in the environmental acquisition and divestiture of multinational companies.
Partner Robb Fox has a diverse practice involving compliance counseling, litigation and transactional work for clients in the waste, chemical manufacturing and development industries and on behalf of cities and municipalities. He is known nationally for his work under the federal Superfund law including handling many high profile Superfund matters such as the Keystone Landfill matter, featured on 60 Minutes, and the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek sites. He regularly litigates Superfund issues of first impression at the trial and appellate levels in multiple jurisdictions.
Robb’s litigation experience extends to superfund cost recovery, class action and toxic tort defense, trials and appeals before federal and state courts and administrative tribunals. He also represents local, regional and national clients in the environmental aspects of business transactions, ranging from redeveloping brownfields (he assisted in the drafting of the 2002 brownfields amendment to the federal Superfund law) to managing liabilities in the environmental acquisition and divestiture of multinational companies.
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Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Environmental Law, Philadelphia (2026)
- Lawyer of the Year: Environmental Law, Philadelphia (2019)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Environmental, Philadelphia (2012)
- Lawyer of the Year: Environmental Law, Philadelphia (2010)
- Recognized: Environmental Law
- Practice Area: Litigation - Environmental
- Special Focus: Administrative/Regulatory
- Special Focus: Counseling
- Special Focus: Enforcement Defense
- Special Focus: Environmental Cleanup
- Special Focus: Environmental Permitting
- Special Focus: Litigation
- Special Focus: RCRA/Hazardous Waste
- Special Focus: Real Estate
- Special Focus: Solid Waste
- Special Focus: Superfunds/Environmental Remediation
- Special Focus: Toxic Tort
- Special Focus: Waste
- Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business listing (environmental law), since 2005.
- AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated through Martindale-Hubbell®.
- Best Lawyers® in America listing (environmental law), since 1999
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyers listing (environmental law and litigation), since 2004
- "Philadelphia Area Best Lawyers Environmental Lawyer of the Year" (environmental litigation), 2012.
- "Philadelphia Area Best Lawyers Environmental Lawyer of the Year" (environmental law), 2009 and 2010
- Top 100 Philadelphia Super Lawyer listing (2007-2008; 2011-2012, 2014, 2019)
- Top 100 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer listing (2006-2007; 2011).