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Heather L.
Demirjian

Member

Office 201.525.6332
Email hdemirjian@coleschotz.com
Bridget A. Corbett |Legal Practice Assistant
201.489.3000 ext. 5109
bcorbett@coleschotz.com
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Heather Demirjian is a member of the firm’s Environmental Department.

 

Experience

Heather uses her broad range of experience in state and federal environmental law to craft creative solutions to her clients’ complex environmental needs. Sherepresents and counsels a wide array of clients, including real estate developers, banking institutions, commercial, industrial and manufacturing operations, data centers, oil and gas companies, municipal utilities, and government entities. She counsels clients with an eye toward finding ways to use the requirements of environmental law to support her clients’ strategic objectives and to minimize the impacts of those requirements on their business needs.

Representative Matters

Heather has significant experience assisting clients on environmental transactional, regulatory and litigation matters, including:

  • Counseling a national real estate investment trust in obtaining state and federal environmental permits and securing the first waiver of New Jersey Coastal Zone Management Rule requirements under the N.J. Dept. of Environmental Protection Waiver Rule for a $1 billion mixed use waterfront development in Camden, New Jersey.
  • Negotiating favorable environmental contractual provisions and managing Seller’s disclosures and ISRA compliance obligations for a wood door finishing and warehousing company’s asset sale to a public national door manufacturing entity.
  • Counseling an international airline in obtaining, modifying, and transferring Clean Air Act Title V, NPDES, Storage Tank, RCRA, and Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection permits and risk management plans for the acquisition and operation of an oil refinery.
  • Successfully resolving U.S. EPA Clean Water Act violations and obtaining penalty reductions for a national gas pipeline company for releases during the construction of a natural gas pipeline.
  • Conducting an internal investigation for a national chemical manufacturer in connection with potential violations under various state and federal environmental statutes.
  • Defending a national railroad against liability in large, multi-party Superfund site matters for sites in New Jersey, Maryland, New York, and
  • Negotiating a favorable settlement of claims against a client under Massachusetts law for the reimbursement of remediation costs incurred by a municipal entity for historic PCB and PAH contamination.

 

Networks & Affiliations

Heather is on the Board of Directors for the Environmental Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and is a member of the Delaware Valley Environmental American Inn of Court. She has taught environmental litigation courses as an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, New Jersey and has coached the law school’s Pace University National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition team.

Prior to joining the firm, Heather was a senior environmental associate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at an international firm, and led the environmental practice group at a leading regional New Jersey law firm.

While in law school, Heather participated in the Stetson University International Environmental Moot Court Competition and the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Heather also clerked for the Environmental Enforcement Section of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and for the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Areas of focus

    Practices
  • Environmental
  • Real Estate & Corporate Transactions
  • Environmental Remediation
  • Redevelopment Projects
  • Environmental Litigation & Cost Recovery
  • Environmental Permitting, Regulatory Compliance & Enforcement Defense 
  • Environmental Land Use Permitting
  • Business Strategy: Environmental Risk Mitigation & Management 
  • Bankruptcy
  • Environmental Issues in Trust & Estate Planning
  • Solid Waste 
  • Environmental Justice 
  • Litigation
  • Environmental Litigation & Cost Recovery

Education

Rutgers Law School - Camden, J.D.
Rutgers University, B.A.

Bar & Court Admissions

Pennsylvania
New Jersey

Honors & Awards

Chambers USA
  • Blogs
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Blogs

  1. 01

    New Jersey Seeks Comment On Carbon Sequestration Strategy In Natural and Working Lands

    December 14, 2021
  2. 02

    Environment and Energy Get a Front Seat in the 2021 Infrastructure Act

    August 18, 2021
  3. 03

    U.S. EPA Issues Enforcement Discretion Guidance as COVID-19 Challenges the Regulated Community

    March 27, 2020
  4. 04

    Help Me Help You: NJDEP Explains Common Deficiencies That Delay Issuance Of Ground Water Remedial Action Permits

    December 17, 2019
  5. 05

    NJEDA Announces New Funding Source for Brownfields Redevelopment Projects

    April 11, 2019
  6. 06

    Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Expansion? Supreme Court Takes Up Circuit Court Debate Over Groundwater Discharges to Navigable Waters

    February 19, 2019
  7. 07

    An Empty Seat at the Table: Sovereign Immunity Bars Pre-Spill Act Liability

    March 30, 2017
  8. 08

    Court “Un-Laches” Backdoor Defense to Spill Act?

    October 19, 2016
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Firm News

  1. 01

    Cole Schotz advises seller in $70M shopping center deal

    December 16, 2021 | Law360
  2. 02

    Cole Schotz Represents Seller in Sale of Shopping Center for Over $70,000,000

    December 14, 2021 | Cole Schotz Press Release
  3. 03

    Md. Judge Axes Pabst, Others From $4.8M Superfund Suit

    September 20, 2021 | Law360
  4. 04

    Cole Schotz Announces Nine New Members

    January 2, 2021 | CityBizList
  5. 05

    New Partners Yearbook 2020

    March 5, 2020 | NJLJ
  6. 06

    On The Move: Cole Schotz

    January 22, 2020 | NJLJ
  7. 07

    Cole Schotz names 6 members in NJ office

    January 2, 2020 | NJBIZ
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Webinars + Events

  1. 01

    2023 Environmental Compliance and Remediation Update

    March 16, 2023 | CS CLE
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Awards + Recognitions

  1. 01

    Chambers USA Recognizes 27 Cole Schotz Attorneys and Eight Firm Departments

    June 1, 2022
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