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Neal Brody

Strategic Director - Liability Management
Senior Principal, Vice President
Los Angeles, CA
424.832.1303

Mr. Brody has over 25 years experience working as an attorney and consultant on complex environmental matters with particular focus on economic costs and damages. His work has included the estimation and analysis of potential claims for natural resource damages, strategic counseling of alternative settlement positions in Superfund and natural resource damages cases, allocating response and natural resource damages costs among parties, estimating claims and exposure to claims in bankruptcy proceedings and developing best management practices to optimize environmental performance. Mr. Brody's expertise encompasses environmental and health and safety issues and their application in contracts, mergers and acquisitions and real estate transactions, as well as all forms of litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Brody is routinely retained by counsel and corporations to provide advice and/or testimony in matters involving claims for or exposure to suits for natural resource damages. Mr. Brody holds a B.A. in Government from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law.

Paul M. Mehrle, Ph.D.

Strategic Director - National Toxicology & Product Stewardship
Senior Principal, Sr. Vice President
Columbia, MO
573.815.0006

Dr. Mehrle is an environmental toxicologist and chemist with 30 years of experience in ecological risk assessments, litigation support, and international regulatory compliance of chemicals. He specializes in the fate and effects of chemicals including petroleum hydrocarbons, pesticides, PCBs, dioxins, metals, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products. He has extensive experience in providing strategy development for managing environmental liabilities and supporting litigation cases. As the head of our firm's National Toxicology Practice, Dr. Mehrle is responsible for directing company-wide initiatives in ecotoxicology, human health toxicology, environmental and human health risk, and product safety and compliance. Dr. Mehrle has written over 100 scientific publications and abstracts and been an invited participant in numerous international conferences. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and served as president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and editor of the international journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Dr. Mehrle joined ENTRIX in 1996, after successful careers with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and as Director of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry at an international contract research laboratory. Dr. Mehrle has been a consultant and science advisor to global chemical manufacturers, consumer product companies, law firms, and state, national and international government organizations. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and M.A. in Zoology from the University of Missouri, and his B.A. in Biology at Rhodes College.