Robert P. Doty

Robert P. Doty is a leading real estate redevelopment attorney at Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP. He provides strategy and counsel to a wide variety of clients dealing with contaminated site remediation and brownfield redevelopment challenges, including transactional due diligence, regulatory proceedings, and related litigation. He has worked on hundreds of contaminated sites, including industrial plants, landfills, rail yards, bulk terminals, closed military facilities, timber mills, dry cleaners, commercial nurseries, schools, and service stations.

Property owners, developers, financial institutions, government agencies, and manufacturers rely on Robert for his ability to guide them through due diligence reviews, acquisition/disposition negotiations, regulatory and entitlement approvals, and insurance and financial underwriting. Robert's commercial banking background provides a real-world business perspective that complements his legal expertise.

On the litigation side of his practice, Robert has successfully litigated environmental cost recovery claims worth hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state courts, including bench and jury trials as well as appeals. He has also successfully litigated environmental tort claims, Clean Water Act citizen suits, contract claims, eminent domain matters, and disputes arising out of California’s redevelopment statutes.