Practice areas
- Litigation
- Administrative Actions and Appeals
- Contract and Common Law Claims
- Cost Recovery, Superfund, Natural Resource Damages and Citizen Suits
- Insurance Coverage Claims on Behalf of Policyholders
- Special Counsel to Municipalities and Public Agencies for Environmental Litigation
- Toxic Tort Defense and Class Action Suits
- PFAS and Emerging Contaminants
- Superfund and Site Remediation
Bar & Court Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Education
The College of William & Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2012
- Burton Award for Legal Achievement
- 2012 Stephen E. Hermann Environmental Law Writing Contest (first place)
- Senior Notes Editor, Environmental Law and Policy Review (2011-2012)
Hampden-Sydney College, B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, May 2008, (Economics and Commerce, History)
Professional & Community Activities
MGKF Summer Associate Program
- Chair, 2021
American Bar Association
- Superfund & NRD Committee, Region 3 Reporter
Friends of the Wissahickon
- Vice President of the Board
Chestnut Hill Conservancy, Conservation Easements Committee Member
Garrett D. Trego is a partner with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, where he concentrates his practice on environmental litigation, environmental regulatory, and site remediation matters. Garrett prides himself on representing a wide variety of corporate, governmental, institutional, and individual clients in complex environmental matters. His environmental litigation experience includes tort defense, cost recovery, and Superfund matters as well as environmentally-related business disputes. He uses his thorough understanding of litigation e-discovery, the firm’s in-house technical expertise, and an appreciation for clients’ bottom-line business objectives to push for resolution of cases in a timely and efficient manner.
Garrett’s regulatory practice includes managing portfolios of remediation sites under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) and related state-law programs, defending clients in state and federal environmental enforcement matters, and counseling clients on issues related to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (“FIFRA”).
Garrett earned his law degree cum laude from the College of William & Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law. At William & Mary, he served on the senior editorial staff of the Environmental Law and Policy Review. His student note on financing and managing increasing wildfire danger across the U.S., published in 2012, was awarded a Burton Award for Legal Achievement and first place in the American College of Environmental Lawyers’ Stephen E. Hermann Environmental Law Writing Contest. He began his legal career as a commercial litigator in the Philadelphia office of an Am Law 100 firm.
Prior to law school, Garrett obtained his undergraduate degree from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and he completed one year of national service through AmeriCorps NCCC, working with the U.S. Forest Service in the Arapahoe-Roosevelt National Forest in northern Colorado and with Rebuilding Together in New Orleans, Louisiana. Garrett lives in Fairmount in Philadelphia with his wife and children.
Honors & Awards
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyers “Rising Star” listing (environmental law and litigation), since 2017. The Super Lawyers list is issued by Thomson Reuters. Click here to view the selection methodology.
Eastern District of Pennsylvania Roll of Honor for Pro Bono practice
Burton Award for Legal Achievement - 2012 Stephen E. Hermann Environmental Law Writing Contest (first place)
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Articles
- May 27, 2022The Legal Intelligencer
- January 24, 2022MGKF Litigation Blog
- January 21, 2020MGKF Litigation Blog
- November 18, 2019MGKF Litigation Blog
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- September 27, 2018MGKF Litigation Blog
- July 24, 2018MGKF Litigation Blog
- December 21, 2017MGKF Litigation Blog
- October 23, 2017Law360
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- September 18, 2017The Legal Intelligencer
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"Solutions to Patent Hold-up Beyond FRAND: An SOS to SSOs," The Antitrust Bulletin, August 2014
"We Didn't Start the Fire...And We Won't Pay to Stop It: Financing Wildfire Management in America's Wildland-Urban Interface," 36 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 595 (2012)
Press Releases
- May 22, 2023Managing Partner Carol F. McCabe included in Top 100 Pennsylvania listing. Other partners included in additional top lists.
- March 28, 2023
- November 3, 2022
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- May 27, 2022Managing Partner Carol F. McCabe included in Top 10 Pennsylvania listing. McCabe and Brenda H. Gotanda included in additional top lists.
- June 14, 2021
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- October 20, 2020MGKF Partners Play Key Roles on Committee
- June 8, 2020Gotanda, McCabe, Moshang and Schiller Included in Top 50 Women Pennsylvania Listing
- April 22, 2020
- April 21, 2020
- January 6, 2020
- October 3, 2019
- May 23, 2019Fox and McCabe Included on Top 100 List for Philadelphia; McCabe and Moshang Included in Top 50 Women Pennsylvania
- May 21, 2018McCabe, Moshang and Schiller Included in Top 50: 2018 Women Pennsylvania Super Lawyers; McCabe Included on Top 100 List for Philadelphia
Seminars & Speaking Engagements
"Placing Your Company on (Litigation) Hold" presented at the Association of Corporate Counsel's In-house Counsel Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 20, 2023
"The ARCO Decision: Third-Party, State Law Claims and Superfund Challenges", a webinar presented on behalf of the American Law Institute, August 6, 2020
"The Deal is Done: How to Avoid and Manage Post-Transaction Remorse with a Focus on Environmental Liabilities" presented at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s In-House Counsel Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 17, 2017
Media Coverage
- January 27, 2020Law360
- September 24, 2019Law360
- May 23, 2019MontCo.Today