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Jack Mizerak

Special Counsel

Washington +1 202 662 5099

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    Jack Mizerak has over a decade of experience advising on safety, environmental, and supply chain issues affecting the manufacturing, transportation, and technology sectors. He has experience with investigations, litigation, and regulatory issues under the Clean Air Act, the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Clean Water Act, as well as numerous state laws.

    Jack has extensive expertise in governmental enforcement, including fact development, government engagement, and the adoption of compliance reforms to address underlying issues and prevent recurrence of violations. He was an integral member of a Covington team that resolved one of the ten largest enforcement matters in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency.

    Jack regularly advises Fortune 500 companies on responsibly manufacturing and releasing emerging technology, including agentic AI tools, AI-enabled robotics, autonomous vehicles, and consumer goods.

    Jack works extensively with clients in the automotive sector, advising original equipment manufacturers, traditional Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 suppliers, advanced technology and software suppliers, trade associations, and fleet owners on a range of policy, regulatory, compliance, and enforcement issues, spanning both the consumer and freight sectors. He has represented clients facing some of the largest automotive recalls in U.S. history, affecting as much as 15% of vehicles registered in the United States. He also represents clients in the growing micromobility and low-speed vehicle sectors, including manufacturers and fleet operators of personal transportation vehicles, e-bikes, and scooters.

    Jack regularly represents clients in the consumer product space more broadly, including manufacturers and online platforms. His work spans the entire product lifecycle, from standard setting for product categories, risk assessments during product development, and litigation and investigations stemming from issues after products have been introduced into commerce.

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    • Represent a Class I Railroad in proceedings before the Surface Transportation Board.
    • Advice to an advanced technology company on regulatory, product liability, and consumer protection risks from agentic AI product.
    • Regulatory risk assessment of unmanned drone operations.
    • Advice to a transportation industry leader on legislative and multi-agency engagement strategy to advance its interests.
    • Advice to multiple clients on rulemaking and regulatory reform initiatives.
    • Risk assessment for a manufacturer of robotic products.
    • Representation of automotive parts manufacturer in a mandatory recall proceeding affecting roughly one sixth of vehicles currently registered in the United States.
    • Representation of accessory equipment manufacturer in multi-agency investigations stemming from safety issues.
    • Advice to multiple vehicle original equipment manufacturers on post-resolution compliance requirements and government-imposed independent monitors.
    • Representation of a company in administrative litigation before the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on legal question of first impression under the Consumer Product Safety Act.
    • Advice to multiple clients on reporting potential safety issues to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and executing product recalls. Clients have included vehicle OEMs, original and replacement equipment part suppliers, consumer electronics manufacturers, and micromobility providers.

    • Advice to multiple clients on regulatory and permitting requirements affecting EV sales.
    • Advice to clients on federal and state oversight of connected and autonomous vehicles.
    • Advice to trade group regarding EPA engagement on automotive issues.
    • Advice to client on response to EPA information requests issued under the Clean Air Act.
    • Advice to client on strategy for resolving environmental enforcement actions, including developing mitigation and supplemental environmental projects. Clients have included automotive manufacturers, manufacturers of antimicrobial pesticides, and an alcoholic beverage production company.
    • Advice to auto manufacturer on applications for certificate of conformity, averaging, banking, and trading, AECD disclosures, defect reporting & recall, engine labeling, delegated assembly, "49 state" strategies, and other mobile source issues.
    • Representation of companies in investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice, and the House Oversight Committee into potential violations of law.
    • Advice to client on legal developments surrounding Clean Water Act § 401 water quality certifications.
    • Advice to multiple clients on state hazardous material regulations and reporting requirements for batteries found in consumer products.
    • Advice to medical device and equipment manufacturing company on applicability of international hazardous waste management treaties to potential operations.
    • Advice to international medical and life sciences company on obligations stemming from the presence of mercury in its products.
    • Advice to clients on compliance with state environmental property transfer regimes, including the Connecticut Transfer Act.
    • Representation of multiple companies in site cleanup actions around the country, including actions involving natural resource damages claims.
    • Advice to manufacturing company on risks stemming from perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS).

    Areas of Expertise

  • Credentials
    Education
    • Columbia Law School, J.D., 2014
        • Columbia Law Review, Editor
    • Brown University, B.A., 2011
        • magna cum laude
    Bar Admissions
    • District of Columbia
    • New York
    Judicial Clerkship
    • Hon. Susan L. Carney, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2015 - 2016
    • Hon. Anita B. Brody, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2014 - 2015
    Pro Bono
    • Representation of local and national nonprofit groups in their challenge to President’s December 4, 2017 Proclamation reducing the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and related Freedom of Information Act litigation.
    • Representation of The Nature Conservancy as amicus curiae in suit challenging the State of California’s decision to link its greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program with that of Quebec.
    Memberships and Affiliations
    • International Consumer Product Health & Safety Organization: Member (2023-present)
    Previous Experience
    • Securities & Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement, Intern (2012)

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