Jeff is Barclay Damon’s Regulatory Practice Group leader, Telecommunications Practice Area chair, and Project Development Practice Area co-chair. In his legal practice, he focuses primarily on large-scale development projects including renewable energy, telecommunications network development, and environmental compliance and enforcement matters. Jeff works with clients’ development goals and business plans to define project incentives and the development project-build process. He concentrates on large-scale projects, including commercial development, renewable energy, lifestyle developments, and commercial greenhouses.
Jeff’s telecommunications experience spans zoning, permitting, regulatory compliance, project siting, and project management for wireless communications facilities. He represents telecommunications-tower companies, wireless-telephone providers, personal communications-service (PCS) providers, and major telephone companies in a variety of infrastructure-development projects across New York and Vermont.
Jeff delivers strategic advice and zoning and permitting approaches to achieve aggressive development schedules in the highly competitive wireless communications field. He also serves as the national zoning-compliance legal planner for a major PCS wireless provider. Jeff has niche experience in zoning and siting complex development projects, including wireless infrastructure in the Adirondack Park.
Jeff is also one of the primary points of contact for the firm’s largest Environmental Practice Area clients, advising on resolving liability and minimizing financial exposure involving contaminated sites. He has extensive experience with complex Superfund sites involving contaminated soils, sediments, and waterways as well as the identification of third parties and sources and natural resource damages (NRD). Jeff represents clients in regulatory-compliance issues and in the enforcement of federal environmental regulations and state counterparts, including the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Toxic Substances and Control Act (TSCA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).