Cohen to chair Certilman Balin's Environmental Law Practice Group

Barry Cohen has been named the partner-in-charge of the Environmental Law Practice Group at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP. For the past 25 years, Cohen has devoted a significant portion of his multi-faceted practice to assisting clients in achieving compliance with environmental laws and in representing members of the regulated community in matters commended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation and local environmental and health agencies. He has represented clients in matters involving leaking underground storage tanks, air emissions, industrial discharges, community right-to-know reporting, the management and abatement of asbestos-containing materials and lead paint's compliance-related practice, petroleum spills and the handling, storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous chemicals, hazardous waste and pesticides. Cohen also spends a substantial amount of time representing clients in connection with the redevelopment of contaminated properties and litigation commenced under the federal Superfund Law, the New York State Navigation Law, and other federal and state environmental statutes and theories. Early in his career, Cohen worked for the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation. Active in his community, Mr. Cohen serves on the Boards of the Three Village Youth Lacrosse, the Long Island Metropolitan Lacrosse Foundation, and on the Good Earth Gala committee for Cornell University Cooperative Extension. He is legal counsel to the Stony Brook Yacht Club, and has served on the Boards of the Long Island Housing Partnership and the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation. In addition, Cohen co-chaired the Suffolk County Bar Association's Environmental Law Committee for two terms. In 1985, he earned his Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law, where he was the president of the Environmental Law Society and the founder and contributing editor of the Hofstra Environmental Digest. Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP has grown into Long Island's second largest full-service law firm with more than 80 attorneys. With offices in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, its 13 practice areas include: real estate, real property tax certiorari and condemnation, cooperative and condominium, land use and environmental law, corporate/securities, litigation, commercial lending, labor relations/employment law, bankruptcy and debtor/creditor rights, trusts and estates, elder law, municipal law/government relations, and criminal law.