Admitted
1989, New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1995, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Law School
University of Chicago, J.D., cum laude, 1988
Law School Graduation Year
1988
College
University of Pennsylvania, B.A., Economics, with honors, 1984; University of Cambridge, Cambridge,
Memberships
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on Environmental Law and Chair, Superfund Subcommittee, 1998-2001); New York State (Member, Environmental Law Section) and American Bar Associations (Member, Sections of Litigation and Environment, Energy and Resources, 1990—; Region 2 Reporter for SEER's Air Quality Committee Newsletter, 2000—); Practising Law Institute (Environmental Law Advisory Committee, 1999—).
Biographical
Comment Editor, University of Chicago Law Review. Contributing author, Environmental Law and Regulation in New York (West Publishing Co. 1996 and annual pocket parts); Principal author, Comments on the Final Report of the Governor's Superfund Working Group (Association of the Bar of the City of New York 1999); New Techniques to Assess Risk, N.Y. Law Journal (Dec. 18, 2000); PM 2.5. Federal and California Regulation of Fine Particulate Air Pollution, California Environmental Law Reporter, vol. 2002, no. 8, pp. 226-37 (Aug 2002); PM 2.5. Federal and New York Regulation of Fine Particulate Air Pollution, Environmental Law in New York, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 115-24 (July 2002); Lead Paint Liability Is on the Rise: Property Owners and Others Should Review Their Management Practices, New York Law Journal, page S1 (June 17, 2002); Achieving Radical Reductions in Cleanup Costs, New Solutions to Environmental Problems in Business & Real Estate Deals , pp. 229-99 (PLI 2000, 2001 and 2002); Tax Assessment of Contaminated Properties, Real Estate Weekly (Feb. 18, 1998); Natural Resource Damages to the Hudson River, N.Y. Law J. p. 1 (Sept. 11, 1997); Environmental Contamination In Tax Assessment, 4 Metes & Bounds no. 3 (1997); High Court Misses Boat on Navigation Law, 9 N.Y. Bus. Environment no. 3 (1996); Injunctions Pending Arbitration, 54 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1373 (1987). Law Clerk, Judge Edward R. Becker, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1988-1989. Trial Attorney, Environmental Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington DC, 1989-1994. Village of Hastings-on-Hudson Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan Steering Committee, 1997— and Chair, 2002—. Co-Chair, New Solutions to Environmental Problems in Business and Real Estate Deals, PLI (2000-2002). Presentation on Recent Developments in Tort Litigation Arising from Groundwater Contamination, NYS Bar Association (May 23, 2000). Co-chair of PLI's annual program New Solutions to Environmental Problems in Business & Real Estate Deals (2000—).