Ms. Mehlman has over twenty years of experience in the environmental, health and safety and sustainability fields, spending the first third of her career practicing as an environmental engineer.

Ms. Mehlman focuses her legal practice on a diverse range of environmental matters, including due diligence compliance, policy, operations, permitting and enforcement actions in both transactional and litigation actions. She has represented dozens of clients in various phases of CERCLA action and remediation activities, from the initial receipt of notice to post-remedial action long-term stewardship and each milestone between.

Ms. Mehlman serves as the primary environmental subject matter attorney for  Vedder Price’s corporate finance and transactions teams. She has performed due diligence through the review of environmental site assessments, permits, and enforcement documentation and she regularly identifys environmental risks and drafts appropriate representations and warranties, indemnities, insurance contract provisions, and disclosures to facilitate mergers and acquisitions of companies with assets including contaminated and potentially contaminated properties.

Ms. Mehlman also has experience in advising clients in regards to implementation of wind energy conversion systems, siting of solid waste facilities including landfills, transfer stations and compost facilities, and with the technical and legal ramifications of subsurface soil and groundwater contamination.

Since 2021, Ms. Mehlman has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America in the field of Environmental Law. She was also named to the National Law Journal’s inaugural list of Energy & Environmental Trailblazers.

Prior to joining Vedder Price, Ms. Mehlman worked as an Environmental Manager for the world’s largest fertilizer company, and previously served as a Geotechnical Engineer before attending law school at the University of Florida, where she received an Environmental and Land Use Law Certificate in addition to her JD.  She received both her B.S. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois and she is a licensed Professional Engineer in both Illinois and Georgia.