Squire Patton Boggs

Dale E. Papajcik

Senior Partner

Languages spoken
English

About Dale

Dale Papajcik focuses his business on counseling on strategic and business critical environmental, health and safety, commercial, real estate and insurance matters.

For more than 40 years, Dale has represented a broad range of major manufacturing, energy and mining clients on nearly every aspect of environmental health and safety law. Dale’s clients routinely achieve a highly desirable level of success. His practice has principally focused on both civil and criminal enforcement defense of industrial clients and has involved all environmental media.

Dale’s representations include some of the largest and most complex industrial and mining facilities in the world. He has particularly broad experience in the Great Lakes and heartland states. Dale’s roles have run the gamut, from project engineer to chief legal counsel and senior business leader.

Dale has represented steel, coal and coke; chemicals; the extractive industries; automotive; aerospace and defense; tire and rubber; coal, metal and mineral mining; metal manufacturing; waste management; and agribusiness.

Credentials

Education
  • The University of Akron, J.D., 1986
  • The University of Akron, B.S.C.E., 1980
Admissions
  • Ohio, 1986
Courts
  • U.S. Dist. Ct., N. Dist. of Ohio, 1986
  • U.S. Ct. of App., Third Circuit

Recognitions

  • Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America 2025-2027 for Environmental Law

Expertise

Services
  • Environmental, Safety & Health
  • Real Estate
Industries
  • Chemicals

About our firm

One of the world’s strongest integrated law firms, providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions by combining our legal, lobbying and political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, startup visionaries and sovereign nations. More than 1,500 lawyers in over 40 offices across four continents provide unrivaled access to expertise.