Lawyers

Experience

Environmental

• Advise clients in response to government investigation and enforcement efforts under federal Superfund, EPA RCRA Facility Lead and state voluntary cleanup and underground storage tank programs throughout the United States
• Assist international, national and local businesses with due diligence reviews of real estate, environmental regulatory compliance and environmental management systems in significant asset and stock deals
• Draft and shepherd tidal & non-tidal wetland, storm water, solid waste, oil operations, Title V and air operations and land development permit applications through required federal, state and local review processes
• Represent and support clients in preliminary negotiations, administrative hearings and litigation matters challenging permit decisions and enforcement actions
• Participate in litigation of environmental-related contractual and tort actions in both federal and state courts and defense of clients against state prosecution for alleged environmental violations

Business & Corporate Law

• Assist clients in corporate matters for transactions including business reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, sales and refinancing efforts
• Negotiate and draft service and supply contracts for a variety of business clients

Real Estate Development, Leasing & Land Use

• Counsel clients and negotiate purchase agreements, leases, easements and restrictive covenants for industrial, commercial and residential properties and undeveloped land
• Monitor new developments and provide comment on behalf of regulated industries on proposed storm water, erosion and sediment control and other environmental regulations and associated state permits
• Provide counsel and support for a Tax Incremental Financing bond offering involving contaminated real property and associated litigation
• Lobby Maryland Legislative and Executive branch officials on environmental and natural resource management issues impacting the Chesapeake Bay and stakeholders

Clean Energy Technology & Green Building and Sustainability

• Assist clients in meeting contractual and technical requirements to qualify for Section 1603 renewable energy tax credits

General

• Former Project Manager for national environmental consulting firms. Oversaw investigation and remediation of dozens of properties occupied by a major oil company in Washington, D.C., directed remediation of a chlorinated solvent release at a Superfund site in North Carolina and personally completed more than 150 Phase I/II Environmental Site Assessments for real estate transactions and corporate due diligence efforts throughout the United States
• Former Project Manager with a regional commercial construction and land development firm. Directed construction of one of the first commercial buildings built in Maryland to standards established by the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED certification program

General Information

• Co-Chair: WTP's Clean Energy Technology Group
• Chair: Environmental Law Section, Maryland State Bar Association
• Member: Section of Energy, Environment, and Resources, American Bar Association
• Licensed Professional Geologist, North Carolina, License No. 1712
• Former Instructor: Environmental Law for Engineers and Scientists, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Engineering for Professionals Program
• Lecturer: Current Issues in Stormwater Regulation, Lorman Education Services
• Member: Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team, Chesapeake Bay Program
• Chair: Government Relations Committee, Coastal Conservation Association Maryland; Member, Board of Directors, Coastal Conservation Association
• Author: S.C. Dep't of Health & Envtl Control v. Commerce & Indus. Ins. Co.; The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Holds that RCRA's Direct Action Provision May Not be Used to Secure Cost Recovery and Contribution for Corrective Action Initiated Under CERCLA, 12 U. Balt. J. Envtl. L. 87 (Fall 2004)

Education

• University of Baltimore School of Law (J.D. 2006)
  
  • Editor-in-Chief, University of Baltimore Journal of Environmental Law
• Sewanee: The University of the South (B.S. 1995)Natural Resources