Garrett D. Trego, a partner with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, is an environmental litigator and regulatory attorney with experience in state, federal and administrative courts across the country. 

He has successfully resolved environmental litigation matters through jury trial, pre-trial motion, and various forms of negotiated settlement.  Garrett’s approach to environmental litigation is to simplify complex legal and environmental technical issues for lay audiences.  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 return positive results for his clients.  Garrett has achieved successful outcomes for a variety of corporate, governmental, and institutional clients in complex environmental matters.  His environmental litigation experience includes matters involving tort and contract defense, cost recovery, stormwater issues, CERCLA/Superfund, RCRA, and state statutory environmental claims, as well as other environmental business disputes. 

On the regulatory side, Garrett’s practice focuses on site remediation matters and FIFRA.  He assists clients addressing historical site impacts by navigating state and federal environmental site remediation requirements, including under RCRA, CERCLA, CWA, CAA, and related state-law programs.  On FIFRA, Garrett counsels manufacturers, importers, distributors, and retailers of pesticide products and devices on compliance and enforcement issues related to registration, promotion, and data use and protection.  

Garrett earned his law degree cum laude from the College of William & Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law.  He began his legal career as a commercial litigator in the Philadelphia office of an AmLaw 100 firm. 

Prior to law school, Garrett obtained his undergraduate degree from Hampden-Sydney College in central 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.  Garrett lives in Fairmount in Philadelphia with his wife, children and a rescue dog.

• 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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"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)

"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