Robert D. "Robb" Fox

Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
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.
Overview
- English
- Harvard University, J.D., graduated 1985
- University of Pennsylvania, BA
- New York, New York
- New Jersey, New Jersey
- Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
- Jewish National Fund - Executive Committee Housing Fund
- SEPTA - Board Member
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Supreme Court
- English
- New York, New York
- New Jersey, New Jersey
- Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
- Jewish National Fund - Executive Committee Housing Fund
- SEPTA - Board Member
- Harvard University, J.D., graduated 1985
- University of Pennsylvania, BA
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Supreme Court
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus

- Environmental Law, Philadelphia (2026)
- Environmental Law, Philadelphia (2019)
- Litigation - Environmental, Philadelphia (2012)
- Environmental Law, Philadelphia (2010)
- Environmental Law
- Litigation - Environmental
- Administrative/Regulatory
- Counseling
- Enforcement Defense
- Environmental Cleanup
- Environmental Permitting
- Litigation
- RCRA/Hazardous Waste
- Real Estate
- Solid Waste
- Superfunds/Environmental Remediation
- Toxic Tort
- Waste
- Best Lawyers® in America listing (environmental law), since 1999
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyers listing (environmental law and litigation), since 2004
- Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business listing (environmental law), since 2005.
- AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated through Martindale-Hubbell®.
- "Philadelphia Area Best Lawyers Environmental Lawyer of the Year" (environmental litigation), 2012.
- Top 100 Philadelphia Super Lawyer listing (2007-2008; 2011-2012, 2014, 2019)
- Top 100 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer listing (2006-2007; 2011).
- "Philadelphia Area Best Lawyers Environmental Lawyer of the Year" (environmental law), 2009 and 2010
News & Media
Case History
- Circuit City v. Kutner
- Agere Systems, Inc v. Advanced Environmental Technology
- Keystone Landfill consent decree
- 2002 superfund amendments
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