Practice Areas
Business Litigation
Environmental
Real Estate
Sustainability and Climate Change
Representative Work
Summary of Representative Work
Professional Experience
George W. "Skip" McKallip, Jr. has 25 years of extensive experience in a wide variety of environmental and toxic tort litigation, including asbestos, chemical exposure, mold and product liability cases. He is chair of the firm's Environmental Group, focusing on hazardous waste cost recovery and contribution litigation, representation of businesses in regulatory clean ups and consent decrees, transactional due diligence, brownfields redevelopment, and permitting.
Skip is licensed in Oregon and Washington, and has an AV-rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He has also served as Chair of the Oregon Association of Defense Counsel's Product Liability and Environmental Group, and as a chapter editor of the Oregon State Bar's Environmental Law practice book.
Honors/Awards
Selected for inclusion in the 2010 and 2011 edition of the Best Lawyers in America® in the Specialty of Environmental Law
2009 Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America
2007, 2008, and 2009 Oregon Super Lawyers - Environmental and Environmental Litigaton
2005 Portland Business Journal "Best of the Bar" - Environmental Law
Martindale-Hubbell AV rating
Professional Organizations
Oregon State Bar
Environmental and Natural Resources Section
Chapter Editor, Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Toxic Tort Section
Litigation Section
Business Litigation Section
Real Estate Section
Washington State Bar
Environmental and Land Use Section
Litigation Section
Oregon Association of Defense Counsel
Publication Liaison for Product Liability
Environmental and Toxic Tort practice group publications (1995-2001)
Vice Chairman (2001-2002)
Chairman (2003-2005)
Defense Research Institute
Environmental Toxic Tort Group
Product Liability Group
Multnomah County Bar Association
Mentor
Federal Bar Association
Clark County Bar Association
Inns of Court
Education
B.A., cum laude, Economics, Allegheny College
J.D., cum laude, Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College
Admitted to Practice
Oregon State Bar
U.S. District Court, Oregon
Washington State Bar
U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Articles
Past Speaking Engagements
Oregon Brownfields Conference: Northwest Environmental Business Council
That's Privileged! Or is It? MBA CLE Seminar (March 2009)
