Of Counsel, Los Angeles
444 South Flower Street
8th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2901

TEL: 213-243-6214
FAX: 213.243.6330
EMAIL: jshimada@mckennalong.com

PROFILE

John Shimada is Of Counsel in the Los Angeles office of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. He is a member of the Litigation Team, where his focus is toxic torts and environmental litigation.

John has over 20 years of experience in both toxic tort and environmental litigation, and has extensive experience in handling mass toxic tort lawsuits. The toxic tort matters he has handled have involved various claimed injuries arising from a wide variety of substances including asbestos, mold, pesticides, metals and hydrocarbons. As such, he is very experienced not only with the complex legal issues involved, but also in the medical and technical issues which are critical to the successful defense of such matters.

His experience also includes environmental cost recovery litigation in both state and federal courts under the Federal and California Superfund laws, as well as under the Clean Water Act. In addition, he has litigated matters arising under California's Proposition 65 and under the California Environmental Quality Act. His environmental law experience includes negotiating environmental remediation projects with regulators, and assisting his clients with the oversight of such remediation projects.