Speaker profile
Julie Michalski
Julie Michalski helps her clients navigate complex environmental and toxic tort law, commercial litigation, and product liability issues. Her practice focuses on the interaction between science and law, particularly in the environmental, chemicals, climate, and energy spaces. She has experience investigating, litigating, and advising on issues related to historic and emerging contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), copper chromium arsenate (CCA), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), among others.
Julie’s 2020 publication, Microgrids for Micro-Communities: Reducing the Energy Burden in Rural Areas, received the Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award from the Burton Awards. Julie is a former Dow Sustainability Fellow at the University of Michigan, and is a current project partner for the 2023 Dow Sustainability Fellowship Program.