E. Gail Suchman has over 25 years of experience in all facets of environmental and energy law and policy. She also teaches at Columbia Law School, Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and is senior legal advisor to the Urban Design Lab for Sustainable Development at Columbia's Earth Institute. Prior to joining Stroock in 2007, Ms. Suchman was the managing attorney for the New York City office of Gilberti Stinziano Heintz & Smith, P.C. Her practice includes permitting and compliance, transactional due diligence, litigation, and legislative matters. Recently, Ms. Suchman has emerged as a leading practitioner on issues relating to climate change and carbon emissions. She works closely with real estate and industrial developers on traditional environmental and land use matters, as well as community outreach and green design, and advises on socially responsible investment.

Ms. Suchman began her legal career as an enforcement attorney at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region V, in Chicago. She spent over ten years as an assistant attorney general in the Environmental Protection Bureau at the New York State Attorney General's office and served for three years as regional director for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. For six years, as senior environmental counsel for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Ms. Suchman represented communities in litigation and transactional matters involving solid waste management, energy, brownfields and environmental justice. She co-authored "Brownfields Basics: A Guide to Rebuilding Our Communities" and has assisted in drafting brownfields legislation in several states. Ms. Suchman has also been involved in drafting efforts to revive and amend New York State's now expired power plant siting legislation. In 2003, she was invited to South Africa to advise the government on legislative, regulatory and enforcement matters.

Memberships

American Bar Association: Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Section, Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development; New York State Bar Association: Environmental Law Section, Executive Committee; Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Legislative Liaison, Energy Committee, Environmental Subcommittee Chair, Special Task Force on Downtown Redevelopment; Board of Directors, Environmental Advocates of New York; Law Committee, Municipal Arts Society; Environment Section, New York Academy of Sciences

Activities

Chapter Co-Author, Controlling Residential Exposure, The Law of Environmental Justice (ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, Second Edition), 2008; Chapter Author, Environmental Regulations and Liabilities of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Real Estate Investment Trusts (Thomson West, updated annually), 2008; Co-author, "State and Regional Initiatives: Inconsistencies Call for Federal Regulation," New York Law Journal, September 24, 2007; Special Appointments and Awards: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Environmental Justice Advisory Group (2005 - present); New York City Mayor’s Task Force on Energy Policy (2003 - present); Lower Manhattan Development Corporation’s Environmental Advisory Committee on World Trade Center Redevelopment (2002-2003); Senior Specialist, Fulbright Scholarship Board/Council for International Exchange of Scholars (2003-2008); Wasserstein Public Interest Law Fellow, Harvard Law School (2000); Recently taught or delivered academic or professional lectures to myriad graduate and environmental audiences at Columbia University (including the Earth Institute), St. John’s University, New York University, Pratt Institute, University of Cape Town (South Africa), Harvard University, Fordham University, École De Formation Professionnelle Des Barreaux de la Cour d’Appel (Paris), New York Academy of Sciences, Municipal Arts Society, Tew Cardenas Executive Retreat, New York State Bar Association, University of Rome (Italy), New York County Lawyers Association, Albany Law School, Legal Resources Centre (Durban, South Africa), American Water Resources Association International Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Forum, Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Admitted to Practice

New York; Massachusetts; Illinois; Minnesota; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Second, Third, Seventh and Eighth Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of New York, Northern District of Illinois and District of Minnesota

Education

J.D., Boston College Law School, 1979

Northwestern University, 1976; BEnvSc & Eng