Jon Schuyler Brooks

Real Estate Weekly,  August 29, 2007  

Tags: American Bar Association

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Jon Schuyler Brooks, a partner at Phillips Nizer LLP and co-chair of the firm's environmental practice group, has been appointed vice-chair of the Environmental Transactions and Brownfields Committee (ETAB) of the American Bar Association's Section of Energy, Environment and Resources (SEER). Brooks' involvement in environmental matters began more than a quarter century ago when he worked on environmental policy and legislation in Washington, D.C. as legislative staff assistant to the late U.S. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, and in New York as research analyst and director of public information for the State Legislative Commission on Water Resource Needs of Long Island.

Brooks, who twice served as chair of the International Environmental Law Committee of the New York Bar Association's International Law & Practice Section, was the first lawyer to speak out in opposition to the changes recently proposed by Governor Eliot Spitzer to the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program. In addition to his role as an advisor on environmental aspects of real estate, corporate and financial transactions--especially, of late, brownfields transactions -Brooks serves as an advocate in environmental and complex commercial litigation matters in state and federal courts, administrative tribunals, and arbitrations.

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