Dean Calland is a founding director and shareholder of the firm and a member of the Environmental Group.  Mr. Calland’s practice focuses on hazardous and toxic substance regulation and enforcement under RCRA, CERCLA, TSCA, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and related federal and state legislation and regulations. He also leads the firm’s chemical industry practice group.

He has extensive experience in negotiating environmental issues in complex domestic and foreign transactions, particularly in the chemical industry, and appellate experience arguing cost recovery issues before the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Mr. Calland serves as national environmental counsel for a variety of large national and multinational chemical and plastics corporations and has assisted clients in establishing environmental counsel networks worldwide. He has been widely published and is a frequent lecturer on environmental law issues.

Vice-Chair of the Committee on Environmental Transactions and Brownfields for the American Bar Association’s Environment, Energy and Resources Section. Mr. Calland is also a Fellow of the Allegheny County Bar Association Foundation and a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.

Mr. Calland is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia and is a member of the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and American Bar associations. He is a recent past. Mr. Calland was named the “2010 Environmental Lawyer of the Year” in The Best Lawyers in America^® in Pennsylvania by BL Rankings and has selected him for inclusion in its Environmental Section since 1993. He has ranked in the highest rated category for Pennsylvania environmental lawyers in Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Business Lawyers since 2003. Mr. Calland has been recognized as one of Pennsylvania’s top lawyers and one of Pittsburgh’s top 50 lawyers, according to an annual survey published in Philadelphia magazine. He was also ranked a “Top Rated Lawyer” by The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel magazines. In addition, Mr. Calland has been selected as a member of The International Who’s Who of Environmental Lawyers. He is rated “AV Preeminent” (scoring 5 out of 5 – the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards) by the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating System.

Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir, P.C.

Babst Calland is a law firm with a reputation for delivering the highest level of client service. Our philosophy is simple. As an integrated group of more than 150 attorneys, we work as a team, not as a group of sole practitioners.

We have been providing focused legal services to corporations, closely-held businesses and municipalities since 1986. We do not strive to be all things to all people. Instead, we strive to be the best in our focused practice areas. We approach our client’s business as if it were our own and treat everyone with the same level of respect. Together, we solve problems and allocate resources to provide the highest level of service in the most cost-effective manner possible. We began as a firm offering environmental, energy and business law services because our founding shareholders had in-depth knowledge in these areas. Although we have expanded our scope of practice, we still subscribe to an “in the trenches” approach by shaping solutions to solve problems. Many of our attorneys have prior experience working in both the public and private sectors. Our attorneys have a deep understanding of the issues our clients face, and can help them deal with their most pressing legal concerns in a practical and cost-effective manner.