Law Offices of Matthew F. Pawa, P.C.

team photoThe Law Offices of Matthew F. Pawa, P.C. provides high quality legal services in major environmental cases, general commercial litigation and other legal matters involving consumer rights, unfair business practices or personal injuries. The firm offers significant experience representing governments, environmental and conservation groups, citizens, property owners, small businesses, non-profit organizations and injured persons. We are particularly known for our work on global warming litigation. We handle both class actions and individual cases. Collaboration with other firms across the nation is a common element of our practice. We work on contingency, hourly and mixed fee arrangements and are open to creative billing arrangements that benefit the client and reward us for success. We handle every case with an eye toward taking it to trial and welcome the opportunity for trial. Our attorneys have backgrounds in both the plaintiff and defense bars and in litigation and land use law. We welcome difficult, challenging, complex, and novel cases.

Breaking News:

Feb. 26, 2008: The Pawa firm has today filed a new case on global warming. The Native Village of Kivalina and the City of Kivalina filed suit against oil and electric power companies and a coal company seeking moneatary damages. This impoverished Arctic village of Inupiat Eskimos must be relocated due to the ravages of global warming, which has melted the sea ice that formerly protected this village from coastal storms. The Army Corps of Engineers and the US GAO have issued reports chronicling Kivalina's global warming harms and estimating the cost to move the village at $400 million or more.
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California federal court rules for State of California and environmental groups in case by automobile industry seeking to strike down state greenhouse gas law.
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