William Hyatt is a partner in the Newark, New Jersey office of K&L Gates, concentrating in environmental law and related litigation. He has extensive Superfund experience 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. In addition to taking leadership roles on behalf of private parties at many of the most significant Superfund sites, including three of the top sites listed on the NPL, 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 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.
William is included in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers to Business and Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Environmental Lawyers. He has also been listed in Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Environmental Law and Litigation since 1989 and was named 2013 Lawyer of the Year for Newark Litigation-Environmental Law. In addition, William has received the Martindale-Hubbell AV preeminent peer review rating for the highest level of professional excellence for over thirty years.
