- FraudThe firm has teamed with securities attorneys to bring security fraud cases against nuclear utility operators who have misrepresented their power plant operations status in public disclosure statements.
- Mergers and AcquisitionsEgan, Fitzpatrick, Malsch & Lawrence has represented clients in the full panoply of procurements, negotiations, contracts, transactions and license transfers involved in the nuclear and energy fields for a variety of U.S. and foreign clients. The firm has represented nuclear utilities before NRC and state utility commissions on restructuring issues, including spin-offs, swap-outs, establishment of operating companies, incentive regulation, outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions, labor relations, and foreign transactions.
- AntitrustPrior to joining Egan, Fitzpatrick, Malsch & Lawrence in 2001, he was a senior partner in the Texas-based firm of Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., which frequently teamed with the Egan firm, on large nuclear matters. He has also specialized in complex antitrust litigation and in sponsorship of expert witnesses.
- Personal InjuryThe firm teamed with Hutton & Hutton, a nationwide medical malpractice and personal injury firm, to bring a major class action suit against contractors Bechtel, SAIC, TRW, Parsons and Keiwit Construction on behalf of workers who drilled five miles of tunnels into Yucca Mountain for the Energy Department's site characterization work. The suit, in federal district court in Las Vegas, alleged thousands of workers and tunnel visitors were knowingly exposed to illegal levels of toxic silica and erionite dust without respiratory protection or protective clothing, and that exposure records were doctored to conceal air quality information to save on labor costs and earn bonuses. Several tunnel workers are already dying of silicosis.
- Medical Malpractice