| Biography | Recipient: New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) President's Pro Bono Service Award, 2006; National Law Journal Award for Pro Bono Service, 2006; New York Law Journal Award for the Most Significant Civil Rights Case of 2005. Assistant District Attorney, Nassau County, New York, 1975-1979. Assistant Counsel to: Governor Hugh L. Carey, 1979-1981; Mario M. Cuomo, 1982-1983. Director, Government Law Center of Albany Law School Public Authorities Project. Editor, New York State Environmental Digest, Vol. 7, No. 4, New York State Bar Association Environmental Law Section Journal. Author: "The Public Authority Board Handbooks for Audit and Governance Committees" New York State Bar Association Environmental Law Section Journal. Co-Author: "The Defense of Environmental Cases," (BNA, 1995); "Environmental Defense," (New York State Bar Association, 1994). Contributor: "New York Environmental Law Handbook," N.Y.S.B.A., 1992. Lecturer: "Public Authority Reforms," The New York State Assembly, 2008; Annual Environmental Update Program, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Environmental Compliance Auditing, Administrative Inspections and Enforcement, Executive Enterprises Program; Corporate Environmental Compliance Auditing, New York State Bar Association; Defense of Environmental Criminal Proceedings, New York State Bar Association; Criminal Enforcement of the Environmental Law, The New York State Legislature; Public Authorities Governance, City University of New York and Albany Law School Government Law Center. Chair, Annual Civility and Ethics Program, New York State Bar Association; Member, Governor's Task Force on the Implementation of the Public Authorities Reform Act. |