When it came to managing matters with dozens of moving parts, involving multiple parties on each side of the issue, Nancy Peterson was a veteran attorney who clients had counted on. As an environmental lawyer, she had led teams on cases requiring the coordination of myriad players and strategies involving manufacturers, family businesses and municipalities-juggling PR issues, settlement negotiations, contract negotiations, and insurance recovery efforts. When settlements were not reached, she had led the litigation effort, all within client budgets. While never neglecting the details, she focused on "the big picture," and pursued her clients' objectives to successful conclusion.

She had represented clients at single owner cleanup sites as well as Superfund mega-sites, including the Fox River site, one of the world's largest river and sediment environmental projects. At that site and others across the country, she had overseen multidisciplinary technical evaluations to affect remedy selection, negotiated Consent Decrees with environmental agencies, and directed contractors to perform work cost effectively. Nancy had served as group counsel or chaired steering committees at multiples sites and has devised several accepted allocation methodologies. She had also successfully negotiated and mediated multimillion-dollar settlements with insurance carriers to fund defense and indemnity costs.

In addition to managing litigation, Nancy had managed environmental compliance matters across the country for corporate clients, including risk evaluation and crisis management. She had negotiated environmental terms in corporate transactions throughout the United States and in Europe, and has consulted with the Institute for European Environmental Policy in London.

Fixing problems was what brought Nancy to the office each day. There's nothing she loved more than to learn a client's business objectives, bring judgment to bear on a matter, and have it go well.

Nancy was a former elected member of the firm's governing Executive Committee and former chair of the firm's Legal Personnel Committee.