Partner - Stephen R. Berlin
1001 West Fourth Street
 Winston-Salem, NC 27101-2400
 t 336 607 7304
f 336 734 2614
SBerlin@KilpatrickStockton.com


Markets
 Environmental, Land Use and Natural Resources

 Services
 Environmental, Land Use and Natural Resources
Litigation


 Education
 Law: Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., cum laude (1984)

 Undergraduate: Wake Forest University, B.A., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

 Clerkship Experience
Middle District of North Carolina, Chief Judge Hiram H. Ward

 Bar Admission(s)
North Carolina (1984)
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Stephen Berlin serves as the head of Kilpatrick Stockton’s Environmental, Land Use and Natural Resources Team.  He has significant experience in several areas of environmental law, including environmental litigation, business transactions involving environmental issues and environmental compliance matters.  Since joining Kilpatrick Stockton, he has worked in most areas of environmental litigation, both in federal and state courts and has had an emphasis on private environmental costs recovery actions and representations of potentially responsible parties at Superfund sites and RCRA issues.  Mr. Berlin has handled matters both at the trial and appellate levels in both federal and state courts.   He has significant experience in client counseling and advice on concerns related to business transactions.  He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Environmental Law since 2006.  Mr. Berlin has also been recognized in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA: American's Leading Lawyers for Business, named to Business North Carolina’s  2006 Legal Elite List, and recognized as an Environmental/Land Use "Super Lawyer" in the 2008 North Carolina Super Lawyer magazine.

Selected Experience

  • Lead environmental counsel for some of the largest Brownfields projects in Southeast.
  • In recent years, he has litigated toxic tort, RCRA, and CERCLA cases in all the district courts of North and South Carolina and successfully argued a case involving the interpretation of CERCLA to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
  • Lead environmental counsel for several multi-million dollar business transactions involving manufacturing concerns throughout the United States.

Background

  • Past President of the Forsyth County Bar Association (2003).
  • Prior to joining Kilpatrick Stockton in 1986, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Hiram H. Ward, Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina.
  • He was an adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Law for 12 years, where he was the coach of the National Trial Court Team.
  • AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

*CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure's standards and policies.



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