Bilott Delivering Keynote at PFAS Forum and Receiving Global Environmental Leadership Award

Taft's Rob Bilott is delivering the keynote address at a PFAS legal and technical forum hosted by the Nassau Academy of Law at the Nassau County Bar Association on April 29 in New York. During the forum, Bilott will be honored with the Global Environmental Leadership Award from the 22nd Century by Design Fund. The award presentation will be followed by a documentary screening of Revealed: How to Poison a Planet. Learn more here.

Dubbed by The New York Times Magazine as "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" in an article published on Jan. 6, 2016, Bilott has represented a diverse array of clients, nationwide, who have been harmed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as "Forever Chemicals." His work is the subject of a recent feature film, "Dark Waters," and the documentaries "The Devil We Know," "Burned- Protecting the Protectors," and "Revealed: How to Poison A Planet," and is detailed in his book, "Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-year Battle Against DuPont." Bilott is a member of Taft's Environmental, Litigation, and Product Liability and Personal Injury practices and is a board member of Less Cancer.