Environmental & Toxic Tort Disputes Require An experienced Mediator

Eleanor Barr is known for her tough-minded neutrality, sharp legal acumen, and ability to move even entrenched parties toward settlement.

When multi-million-dollar environmental and toxic tort cases arise, you need a mediator who can handle complex science, intense negotiations, regulatory pressure, and the competing interests of myriad stakeholders.

Eleanor Barr isn’t just a mediator — she’s a former litigator with nearly a decade of experience handling federal and state environmental cases, including Superfund cleanups, RCRA actions, CEQA lawsuits, and Prop 65 disputes.

For the past 25 years, she has successfully resolved complex, high-stakes litigation matters efficiently and effectively.

strategic dispute resolution - built for difficult cases

Eleanor mediates:

• CERCLA
  Cost recovery and contribution claims for the remediation of soil and groundwater contamination involving PRPs, insurers, consultants and regulatory agencies

• Insurance Coverage
  Coverage claims involving exclusions (e.g. sudden and accidental pollutions exclusion) and disputes between primary and excess insurers

• Toxic Torts
  Wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases against manufacturers and distributors

• Proposition 65
  Labeling and exposure claims brought by consumer advocacy group against manufacturers and retailers

Why Parties Call Eleanor

• She speaks the language of the stakeholders - sophisticated PRPs, seasoned litigators, and insurers.
  Eleanor understands the technical, legal, and the business realities behind environmental cases. And she also works well with PRPs who are new to the process.

• She enjoys complexity.
  Eleanor thrives on tackling the tough problems and finding solutions in multi-party disputes involving complex cleanup, allocation and insurance coverage issues.

• She gets results.
  Eleanor’s track record speaks for itself: parties reach resolution faster, with better control of outcomes.

What lawyers are saying about eleanor

“I have had the opportunity to work with Eleanor on two complex environmental matters over the past few months. I have been impressed with her bright and inquisitive mind, her ability to quickly comprehend the issues, and her tenacity in unearthing the real facts beyond the parties’ posturing. Most importantly, she has shown a knack to find and understand the parties’ real motivation and to get matters successfully resolved.”

“Eleanor Barr is a fabulous mediator -- good with complicated facts and law, and great at persuading people to do what is in their own best interests.”

“Eleanor Barr is unquestionably the best mediator I have worked with....She is one of the few mediators who is seen as fair and effective by both plaintiffs' and defense counsel.”

“I have personally seen Eleanor bring about settlements in complicated, emotionally-charged cases involving toxic torts, premises liability, landlord/tenant disputes, breach of contract, and a massive, multi-party, multi-action, multi-faceted case involving more than 100 residents of a mobile home park caught in the middle of a long, slow landslide. Most of the insurance representatives, the attorneys, the parties, and two different superior court judges openly stated that the case could not be settled. She settled it.”

Barr Mediation LLC

3500 West Olive Ave, Suite 300

Burbank, CA 91505

Eleanor Barr, Esq.

818.760.3706

eleanor@eleanorbarr.com