McGehee, Corey D.

Corey D. McGehee

Associate

corey.mcgehee@lw.com
    McGehee, Corey D.

    Corey D. McGehee

    Associate

    corey.mcgehee@lw.com

    Profile

    Corey McGehee represents clients in complex insurance coverage disputes and bad-faith litigation, as well as in a range of environmental matters.

    Corey leverages extensive courtroom experience to guide companies through every stage of litigation involving:

    • First- and third-party insurance disputes
    • Business interruption
    • Commercial general liability
    • Environmental and regulatory disputes
    • Product liability and toxic tort
    • Complex commercial and multi-plaintiff matters
    • Director and officer liability

    He regularly develops and oversees strategy on matters before state and federal courts, including the California Supreme Court and the California Court of Appeal.

    Corey also counsels clients on a range of environmental litigation matters, drawing on his years of experience as an environmental consultant and scientist, during which time he managed permitting and project implementation processes for large-scale energy generation and transmission projects throughout the western US.

    Before joining Latham, Corey clerked for Chief Justice Scott Bales of the Arizona Supreme Court. He also clerked at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., in the Water Enforcement Division.

    Experience

    Corey’s experience includes representing:

    • Montrose Chemical in longtail environmental pollution insurance coverage in the California Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and Los Angeles County Superior Court
    • Monsanto in a series of first-in-the-nation federal and state West Coast public nuisance, product liability, and natural resource damages cases
    • Caesars Entertainment in insurance litigation in the Nevada Supreme Court and District Court of Clark County over coverage denials for business interruption precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Gopher Resource in Minnesota District Court to obtain defense and indemnity coverage under its employers’ liability policies for alleged injuries to employees and family members from battery recycling operations
    • Northrop Grumman in environmental and insurance disputes with the US Navy concerning aircraft manufacturing and testing at GOCO facilities in New York
    • Xcel Energy and its subsidiary Northern States Power Company in environmental regulatory matters
    • Newhall Land and Farming Company in developing a cutting-edge greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategy to ensure regulatory and judicial approval of the Newhall Ranch Project
    • Walmart Stores, its Mexican subsidiary, and certain individuals in securities class actions, achieving a favorable settlement in the Western District of Arkansas and a complete victory in the Southern District of New York

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • Arizona
    • California

    Education

    • JD, Harvard Law School, 2015
      Editor, Harvard Environmental Law Review
    • BS in Geomorphology, Arizona State University, 2005
      cum laude

    Languages Spoken

    • English

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