Andrew M. Thompson

For close to thirty years, Andrew M. Thompson has represented clients in environmental and commercial litigation in state and federal court, as well as in state administrative court. Andrew advises clients in connection with the full range of environmental litigation, regulatory and compliance issues, including defending enforcement actions by the U.S. EPA and state environmental agencies, toxic tort litigation, Clean Water Act permitting and compliance, hazardous waste, Clean Air Act permitting and compliance, groundwater contamination, environmental cleanup and emergency response, and other environmental matters.

Andrew also regularly advises clients in all aspects of the insurance recovery process including insurance coverage litigation involving general liability, property, environmental, E&O, D&O, and other types of policies.

In addition to advising on environmental, toxic tort, and insurance issues, Andrew is a trusted advisor to his clients on many of their most complex and challenging issues.  As one client reported to Chambers, “Andrew Thompson's client service and general level of service is very strong. Andrew's level of sophistication is very strong. His commercial vision is very strong. Andy is a great attorney who has spent the time it takes to understand our business extremely well, to the point that he can identify potential ancillary issues without us having to explain other aspects of the business.”

Andrew serves as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law teaching a course in water law and environmental litigation.

From 1997 to 1998, Andrew served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable R. Lanier Anderson III, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Andrew's Practice

Representative Matters

Mr. Thompson’s representative experience includes the following:

• Successfully representing clients in all aspects of Clean Water Act litigation with extensive experience in citizen suits under the Act;
• Representing and advising manufacturing clients on PFAS-related compliance issues including reporting, sampling, and litigation regarding PFAS;
• Serving as local environmental counsel to Global Fortune 500 company in consent order negotiations with Georgia Environmental Protection Division relating to largest maritime accident in Georgia history;
• Representing facility owners and operators in Clean Air Act permitting, compliance, and administrative actions;
• Advising national underground utility contractor on environmental compliance relating to the federal Clean Air Act, the federal Clean Water Act, the federal Endangered Species Act, and state and federal waste laws;
• Serving as lead counsel for multinational corporation in successful defense of putative class action and mass tort actions relating to PCE and TCE contamination in groundwater;
• Representing industrial facility owner in negotiations with US EPA relating to a CERCLA removal action and the subsequent cost recovery action against the responsible parties;
• Serving as national coordinating counsel for multinational corporations in toxic tort ligation involving asbestos, silica, benzene, and other exposure claims;
• Serving as lead counsel for multinational corporation in CERCLA cost recovery action relating to groundwater contamination;
• Serving as lead counsel for Fortune 100 company in a putative class action alleging exposure to beryllium—in such action, obtained summary judgment on behalf of client and successfully had plaintiffs’ causation expert excluded under Daubert;
• Defense of landlord in mold litigation which resulted in one of the first of its kind Daubert rulings excluding a plaintiff’s medical causation testimony relating to alleged injuries from exposure to “toxic” mold;
• Representing non-profit organizations in appeals of wastewater discharge permits which have resulted in multiple decisions of first impression by the Georgia Supreme Court and lower Georgia courts regarding the Clean Water Act.