Environment
USA Guide 2024 : New Jersey
Band 4
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
+1 973 643 7000About
Provided by Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
The Sills Cummis Environmental Practice attorneys counsel clients in transactional, regulatory compliance and litigation matters involving environmental issues. They are routinely called upon in transactions involving real estate and business assets to address environmental liability and compliance issues, and have worked with clients on many of the most successful redevelopment projects in the region.
The group's familiarity with a vast array of regulatory programs and statutory mandates allows them to work through compliance issues with efficiency.
The group's lawyers have broad experience defending and prosecuting environmental cost recovery and contribution actions on behalf of corporate clients and in defending clients in enforcement actions brought by USEPA, NJDEP and other governmental entities.
The group also represents businesses seeking relief from denials of permits and approvals and from onerous permit terms.
The group's attorneys have litigated numerous cases involving claims ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars, including emerging issues in insurance coverage litigation.
Principal areas of focus:
- Transactional Environmental Issues
- Finance Environmental Issues
- Regulatory Compliance and Counseling
- Cost Recovery Litigation
- Insurance Coverage Litigation
- Remediation and Redevelopment
- Permitting
- Agency Relations (DEP & EPA)
- Hazardous Waste, Solid Waste, Air and Water Pollution
- Audits
- Penalty Proceedings
- Criminal Liability
Chambers Review
Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. offers capabilities across a range of environmental work, including permitting and compliance, remediation and redevelopment issues and cost recovery actions. Particularly noted for managing environmental insurance claims. Also counsels clients on environmental due diligence for corporate transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team is very meticulous and goal-oriented."
"The team is very meticulous and goal-oriented."
Notable Practitioners
Andrew Robins offers regulatory compliance advice and transactional assistance as part of a wide environmental practice. He also handles environmental litigation.
"Andrew is a really good, no-bones negotiator who homes in on what is important."
"He is very entrenched in the industry he operates in and gets deals done."
Thomas Prol is an experienced attorney highlighted for his expertise in environmental and land use matters.
"He's a very good and well-respected lawyer."