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Visibility Rankings  | | #1 out of 114 lawyers in Commack, New York | | #3,377 out of 898,912 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Environmental Law and Litigation; Municipal Litigation; Brownfields Applications; Environmental Insurance Claims; Civil Litigation; Civil and Criminal Appeals | | | Peer Review Rating | AV
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What's this? | | | Education | Hofstra University School of Law, J.D., with distinction, 1975, New York University, B.A., 1968 | | | Admitted | 1975, District of Columbia; 1976, New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, First, Fourth and Eighth Circuits; 1978, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1979, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court | |
| Memberships | Suffolk County (Director, 1993-1996; Co-Chair, Environmental Law Committee, 1987-1989, 1990-1992, 1998-2000 and 2002-2007), Nassau County and New York State Bar Associations; Long Island Association (Member, Environment and Energy Committee, 1980—); Hauppauge Industrial Association (Member, 1992— and Co-Chair, 1999—, Environment Committee; Director, 1995—). | | | Born | New York, N.Y., May 20, 1946 | | | Biography | Editor-in-Chief, Hofstra Law Review, 1974-1975. Author: "DEC Orders on Consent: Perils, Pitfalls and Possible Solutions," 8 Journal of the Suffolk Academy of Law 91, 1992; "Retroactive Application of the Legislature's Approval of Private Causes of Action Under the Strict Liability Provisions of the Oil Spill Act," Environmental Law Section Journal 11, February 1992; "Oil Spill Liability and Compensation in New York: Overview and Analysis of Navigation Law Article 12," 7 Journal of the Suffolk Academy of Law 1, 1991; "The District Attorney's Role in the Prosecution of Environmental Crimes," The New York Environmental Law Handbook Second Edition, 1992; "Concurrent State and Local Jurisdiction Over State-Mapped Freshwater Wetlands," Environmental Law Section Journal 18, February-May, 1991; "SARA, LUST, and Other Rarely Mentioned Matters: Will Real Estate Transactions Ever Be the Same?" 4 Hofstra Env. L. Digest 11, 1987; "The Meaning of the So-Called Inadvertence Requirement for Plain View Seizures - A Missed Opportunity to Eliminate a Wholly Unnecessary Limitation on Police Conduct," 3 Journal of the Suffolk Academy of Law 25, 1983; "Limitations on the Right to Introduce Evidence Pertaining to the Prior Sexual History of the Complaining Witness in Cases of Forcible Rape: Reflection of Reality or Denial of Due Process?" 3 Hofstra Law Review 403, 1975. Co-Author: "The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 ("SARA") - The County Perspective," County Attorney News, January, 1988. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section (Appointed to U.S. Attorney General's Program for Honor Law Graduates), 1975-1977. Assistant District Attorney, 1978-1986 and Chief, Environmental Crime Unit, 1984-1986, Suffolk County, New York. Deputy Chief, General and Federal Litigation Bureau and Chief, Environmental Law Unit, Suffolk County, New York, Department of Law, 1987-1990. Adjunct Professor, Environmental Law, Touro Law School, 1987-1988, 1990-1991. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Suffolk Academy of Law, 1988-1995. Officer, Suffolk Academy of Law, 1986-1989. Attorney, 1990-1998. | | | ISLN | 907632885 | |
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