Eric Gotting joined Keller and Heckman in 2011. He serves as a partner in the firm's litigation practice group specializing in complex civil and appellate matters, with a focus on toxic tort, environmental, and corporate litigation.
Mr. Gotting has handled cases across the country, having tried matters to verdict and argued appeals before federal and state appellate courts. His experience includes class actions, mass tort litigation, and administrative proceedings. Between 1999-2004, Mr. Gotting took leave from private practice and served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division, Environmental Torts Section, where he defended the federal government in multimillion dollar toxic tort cases filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Mr. Gotting has extensive experience litigating toxic tort cases involving claims of personal injuries and property damage from alleged exposures to materials such as volatile and semi-volatile compounds, specialty chemicals, pesticides, gasoline, radioactive waste, and heavy metals. He defends claims involving the entire range of environmental media, including drinking water, soil, groundwater, and air contamination. He has worked with, and defended against, experts in numerous scientific and business-related fields, including toxicology, geochemistry, hydrogeology, structural engineering, neuropsychology, health physics, survey techniques, statistics, real estate appraisal, and environmental remediation.
Mr. Gotting also has litigated environmental cases in federal and state courts, including suits filed under CERCLA, the Clean Air Act, and state hazardous waste laws. In addition, he has counseled chemical companies, product manufacturers, and utilities in various environmental matters, including Superfund cost-recovery actions, insurance coverage disputes, and compliance issues under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
Mr. Gotting also has represented clients in a wide range of corporate litigation matters, including contract disputes, trade secret misappropriation, consumer fraud, corporate and securities fraud, and government investigations and enforcement matters.