Bridget K.M. Brodie

Miles & Stockbridge's trial team represented a major manufacturing client in a complex CERCLA environmental litigation over a Superfund site with cleanup costs estimated to exceed $200 million. The litigation was phased with three separate 5- to 6-week trials over several years. Through strategic legal representation, the team successfully navigated a complex multi-phase trial addressing environmental remediation and liability for multiple parties connected with operations on the industrial site over many decades. The team's efforts resulted in multiple trial victories, including a notable judgment finding that the regulator-selected remedy for the site had to be modified.

Defended a consumer products subsidiary of a global brands company in obtaining dismissal of a toxic-exposure lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Maryland. After the plaintiff filed days before the limitations deadline and waited more than eight months to serve, the team removed the case to federal court and obtained dismissal under the Maryland Rules' 120-day service requirement, with the court finding insufficient good cause for belated service.

Miles & Stockbridge secured dismissal of a personal injury lawsuit against a Fortune 500 facilities services company, successfully arguing that the plaintiff's more than two-year delay in serving the defendants failed to satisfy Maryland's timely service requirements and prejudiced the defendants' ability to mount a defense. The dismissal was obtained in federal court after the team persuaded co-defendants to consent to removal from state court, where the case had originally been filed shortly before the statute of limitations expired.