Erin Hodge

Senior Associate

Phone number
(202) 342-8445

Erin Hodge is a Senior Associate in the Environmental practice group. Erin serves on outside counsel teams representing state clients, including New Jersey and Maryland, in their actions seeking natural resource damages and related relief related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) environmental contamination. She represented the State of New Jersey against major PFAS manufacturers in the landmark 2025 Chambers Works trial in New Jersey District Court.

Previously, Erin worked as an Advisor for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and as a Deputy Attorney General at the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, enforcing New Jersey’s environmental laws in both state and federal courts and defending New Jersey’s sovereign interests in PennEast v. New Jersey and New York v. New Jersey. 

Environmental Litigation

Served as trial counsel for the State of New Jersey in prosecuting New Jersey’s case against DuPont for knowingly discharging PFAS and other contamination from DuPont’s Chambers Works site into the waters and environment of New Jersey for decades. Following a month of trial in federal court in Camden, DuPont and related companies agreed to a record setting settlement with New Jersey valued at $2 billion in remediation, restoration, costs, and damages. On the eve of this trial, 3M settled-out for up to $450 million more in PFAS damages to New Jersey. At $2 billion, DuPont’s settlement with New Jersey is the largest environmental recovery for a single plaintiff – and is one of the largest legal recoveries of any kind – in the history of the country.

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Volunteer for the Saint Bernard Project in New Orleans

Volunteered with Right-Side Shirts as a Kindergarten art teacher

Early Foreign Language Advocate, presenting benefits of early foreign language study for Northern Virginia Japanese Immersion Program