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201 North Charles Street
Suite 2210
Baltimore, MD 21201-4150
Baltimore
Washington

• Administrative Law
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Appellate Litigation
• Citizen Suits
• Class Actions
• Clean Air Act
• Clean Water Act
• Construction Litigation
• Environmental Audits and Compliance Assessments
• Environmental Due Diligence
• Environmental Litigation
• Environmental Management
• Hazardous Waste/RCRA
• Media, Entertainment, and Sports Law
• Natural Resource Damages
• NEPA and State NEPA - Environmental
• NEPA and State NEPA - Land Use
• Site Remediation
• Superfund/CERCLA
• Takings Law
• Takings Law - Land Use
• Toxic Tort and Product Liability
• White Collar Defense/Corporate Compliance
• Environmental
• Litigation

• Columbia University (B.A., 1975; magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
• London School of Economics (M.Sc., 1976)
• Columbia University (J.D., 1979, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)

• New York (1980)
• District of Columbia (1980)
• Maryland (1986)
• New York Appellate Division (1980)
• District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1980)
• U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (1981)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (1982)
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1982)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (1984)
• U.S. Supreme Court (1985)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, District of Columbia (1985)
• Court of Appeals of Maryland (1986)
• U.S. District Court, Maryland (1991)

Mr. Brager, a former Managing Principal of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., is located in the firm's Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. offices.  He is both a litigator and a counselor.  Mr. Brager represents clients in product liability litigation involving alleged toxic torts to land, such as when every day compounds such as gasoline and dry cleaning solvent enter the environment.  Mr. Brager also represents companies in all other types of contaminated property litigation, such as cost recovery and natural resource damages litigation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and related state laws.  Mr. Brager also represents companies in permit, variance, and enforcement proceedings (both administrative and judicial) under the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.  He also represents individuals who have been charged with being “operators” under the Clean Air Act.  Mr. Brager also represents clients in a variety of non-environmental litigation, including such diverse subject matters as breach of contract, defamation, and toxic tort.

Mr. Brager’s counseling practice involves all aspects of environmental compliance, with particular focus on the Clean Air Act.  Mr. Brager has extensive experience providing counseling with respect to a number of Clean Air Act regulations, ranging from the Benzene Waste Operations NESHAP and Vinyl Chloride NESHAP, to Refinery MACT and Fiberglass MACT, to New Source Performance Standards for petroleum refineries and storage tanks,  to Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Non-Attainment New Source Review.  Mr. Brager represents trade associations and companies in rulemaking proceedings under the Clean Air Act (including the air toxics and enforcement sections of that Act) and the Clean Water Act. 

Mr. Brager lectures and publishes articles on the air toxics, permitting, and enforcement provisions of the Clean Air Act and gives seminars on cost-effective means of avoiding and defending against enforcement actions and prosecuting and defending cost recovery and natural resource damages litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Brager served as law clerk for Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.