Newman Jackson Smith
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Partner
Practice Areas
Appellate Practice & Legal Strategies
Environmental Compliance & Permitting
Environmental Enforcement & Litigation
Government Relations Strategies
Jack practices in the areas of environmental law and litigation, administrative law, land use law, and constitutional law.
Environmental practice includes hazardous waste site management and remediation, contaminated property liability negotiation, litigation, redevelopment and related regulatory counseling.
Experienced in matters of administrative law, land use planning and zoning law, and he works on brownfields redevelopment, environmental insurance and environmental regulatory permitting.
Has experience with wetlands enforcement defense and wetlands permitting, NPDES permitting, Water Quality Certification permitting and appeals, and stormwater management projects in impaired and sensitive aquatic areas, coastal zone management, and with endangered species.
CERCLA experience includes pre–disclosure counseling of corporate clients with CERCLA liability, counseling on environmental liability issues of real property ownership and transactions (including leasing), brownfields redevelopment projects, negotiation of contract language for contaminated property transactions and environmental insurance.
Has represented PRPs in complex private and government litigation, including environmental issues in international transportation liability.
Has experience with RCRA in the areas of compliance counseling, permitting, audit programs, enforcement, tank issues and regulation, and tank permitting.
Has experience in South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Massachusetts, and Arkansas with wetland regulatory permitting.
Has experience in California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts with conducting contaminated site transactions and development projects.