Lynn Rosner Rauch

Biography:

Lynn Rosner Rauch is a partner at Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, focusing on environmental litigation cutting across the firm's air, water, waste, remediation, and toxic tort practice areas. Lynn represents clients in state and federal courts, as well as administrative forums, in a wide range of matters including the following:

• toxic tort actions, including defense of a series of class and individual actions relating to airborne exposure to potentially hazardous substances;
• administrative agency and penalty appeals, including penalties and assessments associated with the derailment of multiple rail cars and resulting release of sodium hydroxide into soil and protected water bodies;
• contract, indemnity, and insurance disputes, including issues involving contribution, cost recovery, and damages related to environmental conditions and contamination;
• disputes arising under various environmental statutes and associated regulations, including the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Water Act, and Clean Air Act; and the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act, Solid Waste Management Act, Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act, and Land Recycling and Environmental Remediation Standards Act;
• defense of municipal interests in litigation pertaining to stormwater ordinances and best management practices;
• claims pursued in alternative dispute resolution and mediation settings; and
• assistance to other members of the firm who are handling regulatory, transactional and compliance matters, to protect our clients by anticipating issues in an effort to preempt disputes before litigation and to position them for a more favorable posture in the event of litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Lynn practiced at Dilworth Paxson, LLP, where she was a litigation partner representing commercial, public, private, and not-for-profit clients in complex litigation and compliance matters in state and federal courts.

In addition to representing clients on environmental matters, since joining Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, Lynn has continued her long-standing representation of the School District of Philadelphia in desegregation and educational equity matters. Among Lynn's other significant matters, she has successfully represented clients at the pre-litigation, trial, and appellate court stages such as:

• the Barnes Foundation, in proceedings to permit an international tour of works of art, increase days and hours of public access to the collection, and broaden the scope of allowable investment of monies held in the trust, as well as defending the controversial decision of the Foundation's trustees to enter into a book contract;
• the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority ("SEPTA"), concerning competitive procurement issues for multi-million dollar rail car contracts, and defense of civil rights litigation;
• Envirotest Partners, defending requests for preliminary and permanent injunctions to enjoin the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation from letting a $100 million contract for auto emissions testing; and
• Independence Blue Cross, defending bad faith insurance litigation in a widely publicized matter involving denial of claims for an experimental cancer treatment.

Samples of reported opinions in cases in which Lynn was instrumental include Powell v. Ridge, 247 F.2d 520 (3d Cir. 2001); Pennsylvania Human Relations Comm'n v. School District of Philadelphia, 784 A.2d 266 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2001); Pennsylvania Human Relations Comm'n v. School District of Philadelphia, 681 A.2d 1366 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1996); In re Barnes Foundation, 672 A.2d 1364 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1996); and In re Barnes Foundation, 661 A.2d 889 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1995).

Lynn is AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated through Martindale-Hubbell®. She is a former board member of the Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children, and has served on the boards of the Lower Merion Township Scholarship Fund and Main Line Reform Temple. While a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Lynn was an Arthur Littleton Legal Writing Instructor.

Education:

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1988
• Duke University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1985
• London School of Economics and Political Science, visiting student, 1983

Memberships:

• Bar admissions in Pennsylvania, Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
• Flex-Time Lawyers of Philadelphia and New York