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New York, NY 10022-5802
New York
Englewood

• Administrative Law
• Air
• Appellate Litigation
• Brownfields - Environmental
• Complex Project Permitting
• Environmental Litigation
• Historical and Archeological Resources
• Land Use and Natural Resources - Environmental
• NEPA and State NEPA - Land Use
• Noise Regulation - Environmental
• Real Estate Litigation
• Site Remediation
• Solid Waste and Resource Recovery
• Spill Response and Reporting
• Takings Law
• Environmental
• Land Use
• Litigation

• State University of New York (B.A., summa cum laude, 1993)
• Pace University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 1997)

• New York (1998)
• New Jersey (1998)
• District of Columbia (2006)
• S.D.N.Y. (2001)
• E.D.N.Y. (2005)
• D.N.J. (2005)
• American Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Michael Murphy's practice is primarily concentrated on energy, real estate, regulatory permitting, environmental compliance, and litigation matters. He represents private clients in major power plant project proposals. Mr. Murphy has represented other private clients in regulatory matters, including permit applications to federal, state, and local agencies, New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), administrative enforcement actions and other compliance matters. His litigation experience on behalf of private clients includes contracts disputes, Superfund, SEQRA, and common law claims based on negligence, trespass, nuisance, fraud, and misrepresentation. Mr. Murphy has represented a client involving a dispute before the federal Surface Transportation Board challenging an approval to locate a solid waste transfer station on a rail spur. Mr. Murphy has also represented municipal clients on a variety of matters, including Title 3 funding applications to New York State for reimbursement of remediation costs and litigation matters concerning real estate, contract, and de facto taking disputes. While attending the Pace University School of Law, Mr. Murphy served as articles editor on the Pace Environmental Law Review.

Recent matters include:

• Representation of a developer of a large power plant on Long Island to shepherd the project through SEQRA review and to obtain environmental regulatory permits and local zoning approvals.

• Representation of a municipal client in litigation matters against other municipalities seeking to enforce contracts rights against other municipalities under an inter-municipal agreement concerning solid waste disposal.

• Representation of clients in several cases relating to contaminated properties.

• Defense of clients in administrative enforcement proceedings relating to compliance issues at a variety of facilities such as landfills and power plants.

• Representation of a municipal client in an RFP process with respect to a future long-term solid waste disposal contract, and disputes that arise under current solid waste disposal contract with waste-to-energy facility.