For businesses, municipalities, and developers, environmental surprises can undo years of hard work and planning. We help our clients identify and address environmental risk early—reducing exposure, avoiding litigation, and helping their projects move forward.
What we do
From permitting to enforcement actions to complex remediation, we provide pragmatic, forward-thinking advice shaped by decades of experience and hands-on insights.
Our attorneys have deep experience with both the minutiae of federal, state and local environmental laws, and the practical realities of resolving disputes, allocating risks, and getting projects built. We represent clients in environmental permitting, compliance counseling, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and remediation, and we collaborate closely with our lobbying team to help shape the laws that impact our clients’ businesses.
Our attorneys specialize in:
- Federal, state, and local environmental permitting and compliance
- Site remediation and brownfield redevelopment
- Hazardous waste, chemical handling, and contaminated property transactions
- Emerging contaminants including PFAS
- RCRA, CERCLA, Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act regulatory compliance
- Wetlands, water, and shoreland zoning issues
- Sustainability planning and climate risk strategy
- Environmental due diligence in real estate and M&A deals
- Complex, multi-party environmental litigation and enforcement defense
Why choose us
Knowing the law is a given. Our added value is knowing the nuances of the agencies, stakeholders, and political institutions affecting how the law is applied.
Our litigators have handled major environmental disputes, including litigation over endangered species, CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, and multi-district environmental litigation. Our permitting lawyers have helped secure approvals for some of the region’s most complex renewable energy, real estate, and infrastructure projects. And our deal lawyers have helped protect our clients against permitting and regulatory risk across billions of dollars of mergers & acquisitions.
Whether you’re planning a development, remediating a site, or facing a regulatory challenge, our team delivers practical guidance and steady advocacy that removes obstacles and moves projects to completion faster, and with less risk.