Upcoming Webinars
Mark your calendar for additional Contaminants Compass CLE events in 2025. For previous webinars in the series, please see below.
Registration details for each session will be provided closer to the event.
CLE applications will be made for McGuireWoods attorneys and current McGuireWoods clients. A certificate of attendance will be distributed to program attendees.
For more information, please contact Rachel Valenza at rvalenza@mcguirewoods.com.
PFAS and Transactions
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at 12 p.m. (ET)
This webinar will provide an overview of managing PFAS risks in transactions, covering topics such as brownfields developments, Phase 1 and Phase 2 assessments, and strategies to address risk through indemnification and other provisions in transactional documents. It will also address permitting and cleanup standards as well as emerging issues related to PFAS permitting.
Speakers: Dave Franchina and additional panelists to be announced
PFAS Litigation Update
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, at 12 p.m. (ET)
This PFAS litigation webinar will provide an overview of the litigation landscape, developing issues and related updates, and offer advice on how to prepare for and defend against PFAS lawsuits.
Speakers: Shannon Kasley and additional panelists to be announced
PFAS Experts and Technical Issues
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, at 12 p.m. (ET)
The final webinar in the 2025 Contaminants Compass CLE Series will feature an in-depth discussion with PFAS experts regarding testing and treatment. Panelists will address available testing methods; PFAS and government guidance on testing and treatment; and the role of privilege in internal risk assessment and risk management programs.
Speakers: Mark Anderson and additional panelists to be announced
Past Webinars
Insurance and PFAS
March 19, 2025
This webinar offered ways to mitigate exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) risks through insurance. Panelists discussed how to assess the risk and review the insurance-related implications triggered by PFAS exposure and present different insurance coverage options to protect against losses stemming from enforcement or lawsuits for alleged PFAS contamination. They also addressed recent strides taken by insurers to enact PFAS-specific exclusions that would carve out coverage for PFAS-related issues.
Speakers: McGuireWoods partners Joseph Englert and Mikaela Whitman will be joined by Matthew Kern, senior vice president of the environmental practice at Marsh.
PFAS Regulatory Update Post-Election
January 14, 2025
McGuireWoods held its first 2025 Contaminants Compass CLE series on Jan. 14, providing a valuable opportunity to learn more about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) regulatory issues from the past year and a panel discussion regarding the post-election PFAS landscape with McGuireWoods and McGuireWoods Consulting professionals and U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean.
Presenters
- Adam Sowatzka, McGuireWoods
- Naveed Nanjee, McGuireWoods
- Clayton Cox, McGuireWoods Consulting
- Scott Binkley, McGuireWoods Consulting
- Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-PA
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