Donald P. Gallo, a shareholder in the firm's Environmental, Business Law, Litigation and Real Estate Practices, concentrates his practice on environmental matters. Mr. Gallo is also a licensed registered engineer with more than 30 years of experience specializing in environmental engineering and law. In addition, he teaches two graduate-level courses in environmental law and construction law at the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

Representative Matters and Experience

• Serves clients on a broad range of environmental issues, including cost recovery and contribution
• Administrative enforcement actions
• Permitting
• Insurance recovery
• Transactional issues
• Litigation on environmental matters
• Development of environmental legislation and regulations
• Environmental regulatory compliance 

Accolades

• Chambers USA:  America's Leading Lawyers for Business – recognized as a "go-to environmental lawyer" with "fine scientific knowledge and concentration in the area"
• Best Lawyers in America (Environmental Law; Litigation-Environmental)
Wisconsin Top Rated Lawyer Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated

Notable Publications

• Authored several Brownfields Initiatives contained in the 1997 Act 27 Budget Bill and the 1999 Budget Bill, as well as the Pollution Prevention partnership programs for both the Wisconsin Fabricare Institute and the Illinois State Fabricare Association with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Illinois EPA respectively
• "Drycleaning Environmental Response Program for Wisconsin and the Construction Guidebook for Managing Environmental Exposures:  Wisconsin Supplement" for the Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee 

Affiliations/Memberships

• Milwaukee Bar Association (Environmental Law Section)
• State Bar of Wisconsin (Environmental Law Section)
• Advisory Committee member in the development of several Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce regulations including the NR 700 Comprehensive Environmental Cleanup Code (and the focus committee on NR 720/722 soil standards and remedy selection; the LOD/LOQ, ammonia, stream classification, GLWQI, TMDLs, wastewater committee(s)
• Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful/Greening Milwaukee (President)
• PECFA Advisory Board to the Department of Commerce
• PECFA Advisory Council
• The Drycleaning Environmental Remediation Program (DERP) (Governor's Advisory Committee)
• The COMM 10 regulations for the storage of flammable, combustible or hazardous substances
• Special Legislation Council Committee on Remediation of Environmental Contamination and originated the proposal for the "flexible groundwater – natural attenuation alternative closure" process
• Wisconsin Wetlands Association (Board of Directors)
• Ozaukee-Washington Land Trust, Inc. (Board of Directors)
• Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (former chair of the Water, Wastewater and Wetlands Committee, Clean Air Act Risk Management Program and Compliance Committee)
• Milwaukee County Local Emergency Planning Committee  

Education

• J.D., cum laude, Marquette University Law School
• M.S.C.E., The University of Akron (Environmental Engineering)
• B.S.C.E., with honors, Tri-State University College of Engineering