Education
- Columbia Law School (J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 2008)
- Loyola Marymount University (M.S.E. in Environmental Engineering, 2003)
- University of Notre Dame (B.S. in Environmental Geosciences, 2000)
Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
Environmental Litigation
Energy Infrastructure
- Representing facility owner in CERCLA and Navigation Law cost recovery action arising from PCB spill.
- Successfully litigated to dismissal Spill Act claims alleged against chain-of-title defendant by current owners. Dismissal upheld in published Appellate Division decision.
- Represented national truck fueling station client in successfully litigating to dismissal Environmental Rights Act SRRA action alleged by business competitors.
- Represented developers in successfully defending- appellate division challenges to NJDEP flood hazard permit approvals for multi-family housing development.
- Represents former property owners in defending private party contribution actions and State enforcement actions relating to historic industrial contamination.
- Represents power station in administrative appeal of permit issued for cooling water intake structures and thermal discharges.
- Successfully settled claims against former pesticide packaging facility arising from alleged mobilization of historic contamination caused by flood events.
- Represented property owner in successful prosecution to settlement of third-party CERCLA and Spill Act action against officer of former manufacturing tenant that contaminated property.
- Successfully settled claims against oil company allegedly responsible for contamination at gas station.
- Defended dry cleaning operator through trial relating to PCE contamination.
- Represented various property owners in prosecuting and defending claims relating to contaminated fill imported to construction sites.
- Represents property owners and responsible parties in negotiating access agreements relating to remedial investigations, including summary access proceedings.
Energy Infrastructure
- Successfully petitioned board of public utilities for approval of a 30 mile natural gas transmission pipeline across central New Jersey, including portions of the Pinelands.
- Represented power plant owner in successfully defending appeal of order from board of public utilities granting approval of a 22 mile natural gas transmission pipeline through the Pinelands. Currently litigating appeal of Pinelands Commission resolutions authorizing construction in the Pinelands.
- Successfully petitioned the board of public utilities for a waiver of individual metering requirements on newly constructed luxury rental development.
- Represents solar development company in environmental due diligence for construction of 96 acre solar facility on a closed landfill.
- Representing client in New Jersey permitting of high voltage interstate electricity transmission project.
- Successfully petitioned New York Public Utilities Commission pursuant to Article 7 for upgraded electricity transmission.
August 28, 2019
CSG Law Alert: New Jersey's SRRA Amended: What's Changed?
May 10, 2016
Annual Environmental CLE Update
- New Jersey Super Lawyers, Environmental (2022)
- New Jersey Super Lawyers - Rising Stars, Environmental (2018-2019)
- New Jersey State Bar Association, Environmental Law Section, Chair
- Justice Stewart G. Pollock Environmental Inn of Court
