Trent Rehusch is a fellow in Cohen Milstein’s Complex Tort Litigation practice, where he focuses on environmental toxic tort litigation and assists the Complex Tort team in other areas of civil litigation.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Mr. Rehusch was a law clerk for Judge Kathryn C. Davis of the United States Court of Federal Claims, as well as a law clerk to Judge Lynn Adelman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Mr. Rehusch earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.
While In law school, Mr. Rehusch was a law Intern for the Environmental Law and Policy Center and a member of the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.
Mr. Rehusch will be applying for admission to the District of Columbia Bar and is currently working under the close supervision of the partners of the firm who are admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
- District of Columbia
- Illinois
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2019
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 2015
Law Clerk, Judge Kathryn C. Davis, U.S. Court of Federal Claims (2022)
Law Clerk, Judge Lynn Adelman, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin (2019 – 2021)
Current Cases
Flint Water Crisis Litigation
Flint Water Crisis Class Action Litigation (E.D. Mich.): On November 10, 2021, the Court granted final approval of a landmark $626.25 million settlement in an ongoing environmental toxic tort class action brought on behalf of more than 90,000 Flint residents and businesses against the State of Michigan, the former Governor Rick Snyder, and other defendants for their roles in re-directing toxic levels of lead-contaminated water from the Flint River into the City of Flint’s drinking water system in an effort to save money.
February 1, 2024
Flint Property Owners Reach Class Action Settlement with Water Engineering Firm Veolia North America
On February 1, 2024, Flint Michigan property owners, businesses, and adults, reached a $25 million settlement with Veolia North America (VNA), the last private engineering firm Flint residents were seeking to hold accountable for its role in the devastating Flint water crisis. This settlement brings the total amount of the settlements reached on behalf of plaintiffs in the Flint Water Crisis cases to over $655 million. The case, a certified environmental water contamination class action, was scheduled to go to jury trial on February 13, 2024.
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July 5, 2023
Flint Class Says Engineers Owed Duty To Them, Not Just City
A class of Flint, Michigan, residents says engineering firms the city consulted to evaluate water quality and treatment should not be able to get out of professional negligence claims, arguing that the firms’ relationship with the city extended to its residents and created a duty to warn them that the water was unsafe. Veolia North […]
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