Bio

Dan is an environmental and commercial litigator. His expertise also includes development of solar and other renewable resources, as well as environmental impact review, compliance, enforcement and auditing. Dan represents clients in a wide variety of disputes before federal, state and local trial and appellate courts and before administrative bodies. He regularly litigates complex Superfund matters, including throughout Long Island and along New Jersey’s Passaic River. Dan helped block the construction of a natural gas pipeline through critical environmental areas of Westchester County. He also successfully defended legal challenges to the environmental reviews of major developments including Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards/Barclays Center, Columbia University’s expansion in Manhattanville and the renovation of Manhattan’s Seventh Regiment Armory. Dan’s other litigation experience includes: defending a state Authority in a civil rights litigation; prevailing in a breach of contract trial for Domino Sugar; striking down guidance issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as improper rulemaking; bringing RCRA endangerment claims on behalf of municipal water suppliers and building tenants; and prosecuting petroleum spill claims.