R. Craig Hupp, Partner
DETROIT OFFICE
313-393-7599
313-393-7579 FAX
CHUPP@BODMANLLP.COM
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Expertise
- Litigation
- Environmental Law
- Municipal Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
Bar Admissions
Education
- B.S.M.E., University of Virginia, with distinction, 1971
- M.Eng.Sci., University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1974
- J.D., Wayne State University Law School, magna cum laude, 1983
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, Grad. Cert., Wayne State University, 2001
- SCAO 40-hour Mediation Training, 2002
Professional Affiliations
- Chair, Harzardous Substances and Brownfields Committee, Environmental Law Section, State Bar of Michigan
- State Bar of Michigan (Alternative Dispute Resolution Section)
- Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association
- Registered Professional Engineer, Michigan
- Neutral, Commercial Arbitration Panel, American Arbitration Association
- Admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Michigan
- Admitted to practice before the United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
- Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court
- Adjunct Professor, Environmental Dispute Resolution, Wayne State University (2003)
Civic and Community Involvement
- Member, Market Based Policies Technical Group, Governor’s Climate Action Council
- Member, Southwest Detroit Contaminated Sites Task Force
- Director, East Michigan Chapter, Air and Waste Management Association
- Chairperson, LocalMotion, Inc.
Honors
- Listed in Michigan Super Lawyers 2007, Environmental
- AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Special Commendation for Pro Bono Services, Community Legal Resources (2006)
Recent Publications and Presentations
- Author, “Where Is The Water’s Edge?,” Michigan Bar Journal (November 2005)
- Author, “A Progress Report on the Promulgation of Rules for ‘All Appropriate Inquiry’ Under CERCLA” Michigan Environmental Law Journal (Winter 2004)
- Speaker, “Legal Liabilities and Ways to Protect Yourself,” MDEQ Conference on Handling Hazardous Building Components: How to Stay Safe and Environmentally Friendly (March 2004)
- Author, “Commentary on the New Rules on ‘All Appropriate Inquiry’ Under CERCLA,” Michigan Environmental Law Journal(Summer 2004)
- Co-author, “The Use of Lateral Thinking in Finding Creative Conflict Resolutions,” American Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Section Annual Meeting (2003)
- Presenter, “The Mold Case - Parties, Pleadings and Damages,” ICLE Mold Litigation Training (March 2003)
- Moderator and principal author, “Report From the Front Lines: Shifting to an Interest-Based Collaborative Negotiation at the Verona Well Field Superfund Site,” U.S.I.E.C.R., Environmental Conflict Resolution Conference (May 2002)
- Co-presenter, “Application of De Bono Creative Methods in Dispute Resolution,” ABA ADR Section Annual Meeting (April 2002)
- Co-author, “Developments in Natural Resource Damages Law in Michigan” (Mich. Env. L.J., Fall 2001, Spring 2002)
- “Verona Well Field: An Exercise in Collaborative Negotiation,” the State Bar of Michigan, Environmental Law Section (October 2001)
- Contributing Author, ABA Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law, 1996 Year in Review and 1997 Year in Review (Environmental Litigation Techniques)
- “Controlling Storm Water Runoff,” a chapter in The Construction Contractors Environmental Risk Management Procedures Manual (1995)
- “An Overview of Natural Resources Damages Claims Under Federal and State Law,” 12 Mich. Env. L.J. No. 4 (1993)
- Model Banking Environmental Policy Manual (1993), for the Bankers Cooperative Compliance Association
Honors
- Order of the Coif, Wayne State University Law School
Representative Reported Cases
Biography
Mr. Hupp has served as plaintiff or defense counsel in numerous environmental cost recovery suits. He has developed multi-party environmental liability allocation schemes involving generators, landowners and operators that have been adopted as the basis for settling cleanup claims. He is an expert with regard to environmental considerations in lending transactions and author of an environmental policy manual for a group of 80 Michigan banks. He is currently PRP group coordinator at a major superfund site with day-to-day responsibility for overseeing remedial contractor and dealing with regulators as issues arise. He has counseled and defended clients with regard to the major environmental laws.
As a litigator, Mr. Hupp represents clients in a wide variety of commercial, environmental and local government litigation, specializing in complex, multi-party litigation. Commercial litigation includes warranty suits involving complex machinery, pursuing zoning and building litigation on behalf of developers, defense of claims against banks, and prosecution and defense of commercial disputes. Local government experience includes service as prosecuting attorney, implemenation of tax increment financing authorities, and counseling on a wide variety of issues affecting local governments. Recent governmental cases have included defense of taxpayer class actions, successful prosecution of insurance coverage for environmental claims, defense of numerous sewer backup suits involving thousands of homeowners, legislative redistricting litigation and government audit actions.
Mr. Hupp has served as mediator in commercial, construction and cost allocation disputes, facilitator of a groundwater development dispute, and serves as a case evaluator on Wayne County’s Commercial Case Evaluation Panel, and is a neutral on the AAA Commercial Arbitrator’s Panel and serves on the Attorney Grievance Commission’s Fee Dispute Arbitration Panel.
Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Hupp had ten years of engineering and planning experience with national consulting engineering firms and with the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG).
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