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Specific Areas of Practice:

Land Use And Environmental Law

   

The Firm’s land use and environmental practice is focused on providing institutional clients in the real estate development, wireless telecommunications, and energy fields with comprehensive assistance, including project conception, securing land use and environmental permits from federal, State and local agencies, and structuring innovative project financing, acquisition and leasing vehicles. The Firm has counseled clients on real estate development on a national basis, including network rollouts for wireless telecommunications providers. It has also successfully litigated challenges to wrongful project denials and moratoria on real estate development, and successfully defended challenges to approvals and permits by citizens and environmental lobbying groups.

The Firm regularly advises clients with respect to the full range of environmental laws and regulations. These include State and federal regulatory matters and enforcement proceedings regarding hazardous substances, remediation and permitting. The Firm also has extensive experience shepherding projects through environmental review processes under the National Environmental Policy Act, State Environmental Quality Review Act and the Adirondack Park Agency Act.

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