Mr. Hyatt is a partner in the Newark, New Jersey office of K&L Gates, concentrating in environmental law and related litigation.  He has extensive experience in Superfund and has frequently acted as common or shared counsel representing groups of parties before the Environmental Protection Agency and counterpart state regulatory agencies, and in cost recovery and contribution litigation. He has taken leadership roles on behalf of private parties at many of the most significant Superfund sites, including four of the top six sites listed on the NPL.  He has negotiated landmark settlements with EPA and the Department of Justice and has mediated complex allocation disputes both as a special master and as a mediator.  He practices in all the environmental media and has also specialized in products liability, building construction, environmental insurance coverage and toxic tort litigation.

Mr. Hyatt is included in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers to Business and Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Environmental Lawyers .

Mr. Hyatt has served as the leader of groups of companies at some of the most important Superfund sites in the country.  He has been instrumental in developing innovative case management techniques for multi-party cases and has successfully negotiated consent decrees and other settlements with the federal and state governments containing precedent setting provisions.  He has served as common, shared and individual counsel at more than 25 Superfund sites in New Jersey and at Superfund sites in 10 other states.  He was also selected as a pilot allocator in EPA's Superfund administrative reforms and has acted as a special master and mediator.  He has also served as national coordinating counsel in the defense of product liability claims and has prosecuted and defended complex building construction, chemical plant design and machinery and equipment failure claims.

• New Jersey State Bar Association (Environmental Law Section)
• Environmental Law Institute
• American Bar Association (Sections on Natural Resources and Energy and Environmental Law and Administrative Law)
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Federal Bar Council
• Fellow, American College of Environmental Lawyers
• Member, Sustainable Remediation Forum