Stephen R Berlin

Practice Areas

Environment & Product Regulation

Government & Regulatory

Litigation

Career

Stephen Berlin has significant experience in several areas of environmental law, including environmental litigation, business transactions involving environmental issues and environmental compliance matters. Since joining the firm, he has worked in most areas of environmental litigation, both in federal and state courts with 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 handled numerous matters involving plaintiff's claims of injury caused by contamination.

Mr. Berlin has been lead counsel for some of the largest Brownfields projects in the Southeast U.S. In recent years, he has litigated toxic tort, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (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. During the course of this career, he has acted as lead environmental counsel for several multi-million dollar business transactions involving manufacturing concerns throughout the United States.

Mr. Berlin was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Environmental Law in 2022 and the 13 years immediately preceding. He was also named a 2016, 2018 and 2019 "Greensboro Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Environmental Law and a 2020 "Triad Lawyer of the Year" for Environmental Law by The Best Lawyers in America®. Mr. Berlin has also been recognized in the 2022 and the 13 years immediately preceding editions of Chambers USA. In 2021, Mr. Berlin was named to Business North Carolina’s inaugural "Power List". He was recognized among the Triad's "Most Influential" professional executives by the Triad Business Journal in 2020 for the eleventh consecutive year. In 2020, Mr. Berlin was also named a “Triad Power Player” by the Triad Business Journal for the eleventh consecutive year. He has been recognized as a North Carolina "Super Lawyer" by Super Lawyers magazine for Environmental Law in 2010, and again in 2022 and the ten years immediately preceding.

Personal

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

Wake Forest University, B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (1981)