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 Class Action Litigation
On November 10, 2021, Judge Judith E. Levy of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted final approval of a landmark $626.25 million settlement resulting from the class action and individual lawsuits brought on behalf of more than 90,000 Flint residents and businesses against multiple governmental defendants, including the State of Michigan, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), and individual defendants, including former Governor Rick Snyder, for their roles in re-directing toxic levels of contaminated water from the Flint River into the City’s drinking water in an effort to save money and their subsequent efforts to try to cover up the crisis.
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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