Donald W. Fowler

Donald W. Fowler specializes in federal and state trials and appeals in the areas of environmental law, toxic torts, and pharmaceutical products liability. He represents major manufacturing concerns and site owners in trials and appeals of class actions and mass torts involving personal injury, property damage, and/or medical monitoring damage claims associated with alleged exposures to ionizing radiation and various chemical compounds, including herbicides, perfluorinated compounds, chlorinated solvents and benzene derivatives. He has also represented a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in the national defense of personal injury claims associated with oncological drugs, migraine treatments, and anti-cholesterols. He has successfully defended such cases whether filed individually, as part of a mass tort, or as a class action. Mr. Fowler’s environmental practice includes representation of major corporations in defense of both actual and anticipated litigation brought by federal and state natural resource trustees seeking recovery for damages to natural resources under federal and state law. He also represents companies in litigation and before the Environmental Protection Agency in matters arising under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and Superfund, including private cost recovery actions. He frequently authors amicus curiae briefs on behalf of our toxics and pharmaceutical clients, and he lectures at private and public seminars on developments in these fields. Mr. Fowler is named in the 2020 Washington, DC edition of Super Lawyers, in the 2021 edition of Best Lawyers in America, and in Who's Who Legal: Environment. He is also named as a "Distinguished Lawyer" by The Expert Network.