John H. Paul
Associate
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- Administrative Law
- Brownfields - Environmental
- Brownfields - Land Use
- Citizen Suits
- Environmental Litigation
- NEPA and State NEPA - Environmental
- NEPA and State NEPA - Land Use
- Superfund/CERCLA
- Takings Law - Land Use
- Wetlands - Environmental
- Wetlands - Land Use
- Environmental
- Land Use
- Litigation
- Boston University (B.A., English; 1990)
- Pace University Law School (J.D.; magna cum laude; 2003; White Plains Bar Association Environmental Law Scholar Award; Pace Environmental Law Review 2001-2003, Managing Editor, 2002-2003)
- New York (2004)
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources
- New York State Bar Association, Environmental Law Section
John H. Paul is an associate in the New York office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., with a practice focusing on environmental law, environmental quality review of project proposals, and environmental litigation.
His litigation experience includes representing private, municipal, and corporate clients in regulatory enforcement proceedings, claims under state and federal environmental statutes, commercial disputes, and state statutory and common law. John is particularly experienced in litigation under New York's Oil Spill and Environmental Quality Review Acts, and with hazardous waste cost-recovery and contribution actions. His non-litigation practice focuses on regulatory compliance, permitting, and administrative law, as well as counseling clients on energy, takings, and environmental quality review issues.
John received his J.D. (magna cum laude) with an Environmental Law Certificate in 2003 from Pace University School of Law, and was awarded the White Plains Bar Association's Environmental Law Scholar Award. While in law school, John worked in Pace's Environmental Litigation Clinic, representing numerous non-profit organizations in state and federal environmental litigation under the Clean Water Act and New York's Environmental Quality Review Act. John also worked for a major pharmaceutical firm while in law school.
Before entering law school, John served in the U.S. Peace Corps in the Republic of Moldova, where he was an Associate Professor of English at the state university.
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Practice Contacts
Co-Author: "Federal Brownfields Law Provides Two Types of Liability Protection," New York Law Journal (2004)
"The Second Circuit Clears the Murk of Gorsuch and Consumer's Power from the Esopus Creek," 20 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 841 (2003)