Taft partner Rob Bilott will participate in a remote international panel discussion following the screening of the new documentary, “How to Poison a Planet,” on April 27. The event occurs on the eve of the opening of the 2025 Meetings of the Conference of the Parties of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions in Geneva. Learn more here.
Dubbed by The New York Times Magazine as “ The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” in an article published on Jan. 6, 2016, Bilott has represented a diverse array of clients, nationwide, who have been harmed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “Forever Chemicals.” His work is the subject of a recent feature film, “Dark Waters,” and the documentaries “The Devil We Know,” “Burned- Protecting the Protectors,” and “Revealed: How to Poison A Planet,” and is detailed in his book, “Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-year Battle Against DuPont.” Bilott is a member of Taft’s Environmental, Litigation, and Product Liability and Personal Injury practices and is a board member of Less Cancer, Green Umbrella, and the New College Foundation.