Mr. David Paget

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Mr. David Paget: Attorney with Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C.
Attorney Awards
  • Martindale-Hubbell Peer AV Preeminent Rating
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Biography

David Paget has been long and widely recognized as one of this country’s leading practitioners of environmental law and litigation. He has been principally responsible for overseeing the preparation of environmental impact statements and assessment for an imposing number of major public and private development and infrastructure projects. In that capacity he has also had the responsibility for securing approvals and permits for those projects under a myriad of federal and state laws and regulations, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Endangered Species Act and their state counterparts. As an accomplished litigator, he has been responsible for defending lawsuits contesting those projects. The clearest measure of his success in that regard is that he has never had a project blocked by litigation.

David began litigating and managing environmental cases in the early 1970s following his service as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and as associate at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler. Among his current engagements, David is serving as the legal consultant to an international and national array of experts, retained by the City of New York to assess and advise it of measures to address climate change adaptation and coastal flood protection.

Recognition

Chambers and Partners, Senior Statesman for environmental law

U.S. News and World Report & Best Lawyers, environmental law and environmental litigation

“Lawyer of the Year” in 2014 for New York City environmental litigation

Super Lawyer, environmental litigation

Who’s Who Legal

Community

Long-standing co-chairman of the annual ABA/ELI program on the National Environmental Policy Act and State Environmental Review Acts

Has served on the faculty for the ABA/ELI Environmental Litigation program and for the Practicing Law Institute’s program on Historic Preservation

Has co-chaired programs on Resource Recovery Facilities for the United States Conference of Mayors

Co-chairman of the Practicing Law Institute’s program on Retail Property Development and a participant in its program on Negotiating the Sophisticated Real Estate Sale Transaction

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Areas of Practice (2)

  • Environmental Law
  • Environmental Litigation

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
City College of New York, A.B., 1961
Law School Attended:
New York University School of Law, LL.B., magna cum laude; Order of the Coif and Law Review Editor, 1964
Year of First Admission:
1964
Admission:
1964, New York; 1966, U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1969, U.S. Supreme Court
Memberships:
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Consumer Affairs, 1972-1977; Special Committee on Empirical Data in Legal Decision-Making, 1982—); New York State (Member: Policy Board on Regulatory Reform, 1982—; Executive Board, Environmental Law Section, 1987—; Co-Chairman of Energy Sub-Committee of Environmental Law Section, 1985—) and American Bar Associations; Federal Bar Council.
ISLN:
904624166

Peer Reviews

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