Biography
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Dr. Love leads Roux’s Litigation Practice Group and provides forensic litigation support and expert witness services to clients throughout the United States on both environmental litigation and environmental insurance coverage related matters.
Dr. Love’s experience includes strategic and technical analysis and guidance regarding numerous complex groundwater, soil, sediment, soil vapor, and air contaminated sites. He has also provided expert technical guidance for state legislative actions and federal advisory panels on a range of traditional and non-traditional environmental hazards.
Dr. Love’s expertise has been developed through a unique variety of University, Federal and post-academia work, including developing leading-edge methods for addressing forensic questions related to weapons of mass destruction for the Federal Government.
Areas of Focus
- Forensic evaluation of contaminant source, age, and release history across soil, groundwater, sediment, and soil vapor.
- Chemical and isotopic fingerprinting to distinguish commingled plumes and separate contributions from multiple parties.
- Divisibility and cost apportionment analysis to support allocation and cost recovery among responsible parties.
- Expert witness testimony and litigation support for environmental and insurance coverage disputes.
- Technical peer review and strategic guidance for counsel throughout investigation, remediation, and trial.
Forensic Approach
Dr. Love pairs field data with lines of evidence drawn from chemistry, hydrogeology, and site history to reconstruct how and when contamination occurred. That reconstruction gives clients and counsel a defensible technical foundation before questions of liability and cost are ever raised.
Every engagement is built to withstand scrutiny. Methods are documented, assumptions are stated plainly, and conclusions are tied directly to the underlying data, so the analysis holds up through deposition, cross examination, and trial.
Expertise
Education
- Post Doctorate, Forensic Science Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- PhD, Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
- MS, Material Science and Mineral Engineering (Hydrogeology), University of California at Berkeley
- BA, Geoscience, Franklin & Marshall College
Project Overviews
Project Overviews (Bullets)
- Passaic River (Diamond Alkali) Superfund Site, New Jersey (Superfund).
- Battery Recycling Facility, California (Environmental Litigation).
