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New York, New York
Mr. Periconi focuses on both litigation and regulatory matters. He has had substantial experience representing clients both in governmental actions brought for remediation of Superfund and other contaminated sites and in private cost recovery actions. He is also regularly involved in conducting investigations or representing targets in criminal environmental inquiries. Mr. Periconi has twice been appointed a federal court Special Master in Clean Water Act cases and often acts as an expert witness in environmental law in federal and state actions. From 1987 through 1989, Mr. Periconi served as Chief of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Enforcement Bureau of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. During his tenure there, he oversaw the nation's largest and most complex state Superfund program. From 1982 to 1987, Mr. Periconi was an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Department of Law, where, among other matters, he prosecuted the first hazardous waste felony jury trial to corporate and individual convictions in New York, and sued the United States Environmental Protection Agency in one of the earliest "acid rain" cases. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office from 1977 to 1980. Mr. Periconi, who is admitted to practice in the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third and Sixth Circuits, as well as all federal district courts in New York, was chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association in 2003. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Toxics Law Reporter, published by the Bureau of National Affairs in Washington, D.C. The firm is the New York chapter Environmental Law Firm for the International Network of Boutique Law Firms. Mr. Periconi was the Chairman of the Board of INFORM, Inc., a New York-based national environmental organization, from 2004-2006 and remains a Board member. Mr. Periconi is a co-author of "CERCLA Passive' Disposal Through Migration: Still Alive and Kicking," which appeared in the Toxics Law Reporter and the Environment Reporter (BNA, 2001), and "The Precedent Setting Use of a Pollution Prevention Project in An EPA Enforcement Settlement: The First Dollar-For-Dollar Penalty Offset," which appeared in the same publications in 1994. A frequent lecturer on environmental law topics, he is a primary co-author of Environmental Law and Regulation in New York (West, 1996), a part of West's award-winning New York Practice series. Mr. Periconi is a graduate of Regis High School (New York), Columbia University (B.A., 1970). In 1972, as a Danforth Graduate Fellow, he received an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia. He received his law degree from New York University in 1977.
708 Third Avenue, 17th Floor Phone: 212-213-5500 The attorneys of the Manhattan-based environmental law boutique, Periconi, LLC, represent corporate clients, individuals, and small business owners in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. They represent business clients throughout New York City, as well as the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, and Rockland. |
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