Edward Scarvalone

Partner

Ed Scarvalone is an experienced trial lawyer whose practice focuses on complex civil litigation, environmental matters, and government investigations.

Mr. Scarvalone's civil litigation practice includes a wide variety of commercial, securities, and regulatory disputes on behalf of businesses, investment funds, governmental entities, and individuals. In the environmental area, Mr. Scarvalone helps clients resolve enforcement matters brought by federal and state regulators, and litigates cost-recovery and contribution claims under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), citizen suit and toxic tort claims, and other environmental disputes.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Scarvalone served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he litigated civil fraud and enforcement actions on behalf of the United States, and defended federal agencies in commercial and regulatory matters. In the course of his tenure, Mr. Scarvalone served as Chief of the Environmental Protection Unit, where he led civil prosecutions against corporations, municipalities, and individuals under the major federal environmental enforcement statutes. Mr. Scarvalone also defended federal agencies against claims for CERCLA cost-recovery and contribution, and against legal challenges to their regulatory decision-making and their assessment of the environmental impacts of proposed agency action.

For his government service, Mr. Scarvalone received a Department of Justice Director's Award for Superior Performance and an environmental enforcement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Areas of Practice:

• Complex Civil Litigation
• Environmental Enforcement and Litigation

Bar Admissions:

• New York
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Education:

• J.D., Rutgers University School of Law (Newark), 1986; Articles Editor, Rutgers Law Review
  
• Columbia College, Columbia University, 1981
  

Past Employment Positions:

• U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, 1991 - 2007
  
• Fordham Law School, Associate Adjunct Professor, 1994 - 1996
  
• Spengler Carlson Gubar Brodsky & Frischling, 1990 - 1991
  
• Kaye Scholer LLP, 1986 - 1990

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• New York State Bar Association
• Environmental Law Section
• Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, Committee on White Collar Criminal Litigation
• New York City Bar Association
• Federal Courts Committee
• Federal Bar Council