Attorneys

Lee Knight Caffery focuses her practice on environmental litigation and toxic tort defense. She also assists clients with regulatory concerns in these areas.

She has regularly represented clients in matters related to:

• "Superfund" or CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act)
• RCRA (Resources Conservation and Recovery Act)
• Clean Air Act
• Clean Water Act
• State-level Department of Environmental and Natural Resources litigation and regulatory compliance.

Her litigation work includes defending companies in property contamination, wastewater treatment and underground tank storage disputes, representing clients in federal, state and North Carolina Administrative courts. She also represents clients before the North Carolina Utilities Commission.

Lee Knight Caffery's clients include chemical manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, private property owners, petroleum companies, product manufacturers and insurance providers.

• North Carolina, 2006

• Member, American Bar Association Section of Environment,
      Energy and Resources
• Climate Change, Sustainable Development and
      Ecosystems Committee
• Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts Committee
• Energy and Resources Committee
• Member, North Carolina Bar Association and Mecklenburg
      County Bar Association

• Vermont Law School, Master of Studies in Environmental
      Law, 2005

• Honors:
• Cum Laude
• Finalist, Debevoise Moot Court Competition
• Moot Court Advisory Board
• Vermont Law School Diversity Committee

• Vanderbilt University, 1997 B.S.

• Honors:
• Psi Chi
• Psychology Honor Society
• Major:  Psychology

• Staff Attorney, Legal Services of Southern Piedmont,
      Charlotte, NC 2006 - 2007

• "Looking to the Future: Responding to New Climate
      Change Litigation," Co-author (Richard Morton)
• Inside The Minds - The Legal Impact of Climate Change, 2010