Roberta G Gordon

Practice Areas

Ms. Gordon’s practice focuses on managing environmental risks in corporate, real estate and other business transactions, and on environmental insurance, brownfield redevelopment and lender environmental liability matters. She has litigated environmental cases and routinely counsels clients on environmental compliance and remediation.

Ms. Gordon has worked in federal, state and local government in enforcement, regulatory and policy-making capacities. Ms. Gordon developed environmental policies and rules on lender liability, remediation and environmental justice as an Attorney Advisor at the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel, where she was awarded a Gold Medal for Exceptional Service and Bronze Medal for Commendable Service. She represented the State of New York in environmental litigation in federal and state courts as an Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Department of Law’s Environmental Protection Bureau. Ms. Gordon clerked for the Hon. Leonard B. Sand of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

Accounts of Ms. Gordon’s extensive pro bono work with families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack have appeared in news and other publications, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.