Jeff is a Member in Mintz Levin's Boston office and leads the firm's Environmental Section. He is also a member of the firm's Policy Committee.
For 23 years he has advised clients regarding complex environmental regulatory compliance and permitting issues, including issues relating to air and water discharges and hazardous waste storage and disposal. Jeff's extensive litigation and transactional experience provides him with unique insight, enabling him to deliver integrated legal, technical, and risk management solutions to the challenges facing owners of contaminated properties. His clients include The General Electric Company, Cargill Incorporated, and Colony Realty Partners, LLC.
Jeff's recent professional accomplishments include the following:
· Obtaining what may be the largest private party Superfund response cost recovery in Massachusetts history after filing a motion for summary judgment of the responsible party's liability.
· Representing a pharmaceutical manufacturer in connection with the acquisition of a portion of a former military base for the construction of a large-scale biologics manufacturing facility.
· Obtaining a dismissal of contamination-related property damage claims made by the owner of an industrial property against its long-time tenant.
· Successfully defending a client against a claim that it was responsible for contamination of a municipal water supply.
Jeff is recognized as one of the leading environmental lawyers in the United States by The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, and the Guide to the World's Leading Environmental Lawyers. He has also been identified as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer since the inaugural publication of this list.
Jeff serves on the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection's Waste Site Cleanup Advisory Committee as the representative of Associated Industries of Massachusetts.
He was a close advisor to the chairs of the Massachusetts Legislature's Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture during the drafting of the 1998 Brownfield legislation that has spurred the beneficial redevelopment of underutilized former industrial sites across the Commonwealth.
Jeff is the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Jeff is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Harbor Island Alliance. He previously served as the vice chairman and treasurer of that organization.
He is the author of countless articles and guest columns, and a frequent commentator in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Boston Business Journal, Banker and Tradesman, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, and the New England Real Estate Journal. Most recently, Jeff contributed a chapter to the publication, Inside the Minds: Surviving the Enforcement First Culture, published by Thomson Reuters/Aspatore.
Jeff is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston bar associations. Jeff received his BA, cum laude, from Bates College (1985) and his JD from Cornell University (1988). He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in Wayland, Massachusetts, with his wife, Jill, and their two children.
He has been peer review rated AV. CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards, and policies.
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