Proskauer Rose LLP

Proskauer, founded in 1875, is a global law firm providing a wide variety of legal services to clients worldwide from offices in Beijing, Boca Raton, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Newark, Paris, São Paulo, and Washington, DC.

The firm has wide experience in all areas of practice important to businesses, including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate transactions, bankruptcy and reorganizations, taxation, litigation, trusts and estates, intellectual property, and labor and employment law. Its clients include participants in many industries, including chemicals, entertainment, financial services, health care, hospitality, information technology, insurance, internet, manufacturing, media and communications, pharmaceuticals, real estate investment, sports, and transportation.

PRO BONO

We are thrilled to share with you our Pro Bono Video which emphasizes our motto of “Doing Well, by Doing Good” and highlights our deeply-rooted commitment to the Pro Bono Initiative and provision of legal services to the disadvantaged and the poor. We are proud to recognize the phenomenal efforts and commitment of our colleagues who contribute their time and talents to organizations and individuals in need of legal assistance. We look forward to sharing more of these projects and experiences with you as the firm continues to serve the needs of our clients and our communities around the world.

“Our commitment to pro bono is part of the DNA of the Firm. Ultimately we became lawyers because values like justice and equality and fairness mattered to us, and the defense of the individual mattered to us, and it really is an opportunity for us to bring those abstract principles into the real lives of real people.”
—Joseph M. Leccese
Chairman of the Firm

“I think that [pro bono] is the test of a great firm – to demonstrate that we can be an outstanding corporation, outstanding business, but also a very responsible member of our profession.”
—Scott Harshbarger
Chair, Pro Bono Initiative Committee

http://www.proskauer.com/probono/

ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE

Our Environmental Group handles a substantial U.S. and international caseload, working across practice areas, including corporate, real estate, litigation, health care, labor and tax, to provide a full range of services required by clients. We cover all aspects of environmental law, including transactional counseling, compliance, remediation, litigation, land use and sustainability and climate change in a host of industries such as chemical, industrial, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.

Leaders of our group have been practicing environmental law for over 30 years and have served in a variety of positions including the current chair of the Council on the Environment of New York City, former chairs of both the New York State Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section and the Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar, and a three-time gubernatorial appointee to the New York State Environmental Board.

We are perennially recognized as a leading practice by Chambers USA, which commends both our “diverse environmental practice that encompasses regulatory, transactional and litigious work” and practice head Gail Port, who “personifies the multifaceted nature” of our group.

Areas of Focus

– Transactional Counseling
– Compliance
– Remediation
– Litigation
– Land Use
– Sustainability and Climate Change

Key Representations

– TRC Companies, Inc., a large national engineering and remediation public company in the U.S., in major brownfield projects in New York City including the demolition, decommissioning and the remediation of the nine-acre site occupied by the Con Edison power generating plant in midtown Manhattan to make way for a five million square foot mixed development project

– Teva North America and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., subsidiaries of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Israel’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, on a host of environmental matters, including representing Teva in its role as a co-operating party in perhaps the largest river-related Superfund matter in U.S. history, the lower Passaic River in New Jersey

– A major New York City hospital in a high-visibility development project which raises the full panoply of land use, historic preservation and environmental issues