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Jill B.
Richardson

Member

Office 646.563.8953
Email jrichardson@coleschotz.com
Susan Daly |Legal Practice Assistant
201.489.3000 ext. 5106
sdaly@coleschotz.com
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Jill B. Richardson is a member in the firm’s Environmental Department.

 

Experience

Her practice involves all aspects of transactional environmental law, with a focus on evaluating the environmental liability faced by buyers, sellers, tenants, and commercial lenders during business and real estate transactions. She also guides clients through the process of achieving regulatory compliance while they undertake complex cleanups at industrial, commercial, and residential properties.

Diligent and detail-oriented, Jill is adept at navigating the multiple moving parts in business deals.

Representative Matters

Her experience spans an array of transactional settings, such as:

  • Conducting environmental due diligence for a major national commercial real estate financer of hundreds of multi-million dollar deals throughout the country;
  • Allocating risks for a prominent NYC private equity fund investing in the development of a mixed-use building on property contaminated by automobile fueling/repair operations;
  • Performing ISRA compliance for an international real estate investment management firm triggered by a billion dollar transaction involving multiple industrial properties;
  • Procuring nearly 100% insurance coverage for a former family-owned business cleaning up soil and groundwater contamination from old underground storage tanks; and
  • Evaluating environmental risks of a municipal power authority and its members in advance of the sale and decommissioning of a coal-fired power plant located in the southwestern United States.

 

Honors & Awards

Jill serves on the NAIOP NYC Events Committee as Co-Chair. Additionally, she served on the New York City Bar Association Environmental Law Committee from 2017-2020. She is also a member of the New York City Environmental Law Leadership Institute’s 2014 class. New York Metro Super Lawyers has recognized Jill as a Rising Star for several years.

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Areas of focus

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

Education

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, J.D.
Michigan State University, B.A.

Bar & Court Admissions

New York
New Jersey

Honors & Awards

New York Metro Super Lawyers Rising Stars
  • Blogs

Blogs

  1. 01

    Updates Coming to NY State Petroleum Bulk Storage and Chemical Bulk Storage Rules – Public Comment Period Extended to December 6, 2021

    August 23, 2021
  2. 02

    U.S. EPA Issues Interim Guidance on Performing Site Cleanups during COVID-19

    April 14, 2020
  3. 03

    COVID-19 Alert – NYSDEC Guidance on “Essential” Remediation and Brownfields Cleanup Activities

    April 3, 2020
  4. 04

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

    March 27, 2020
  5. 05

    Major Expansion of Emerging Contaminant Sampling Requirements in New York

    March 25, 2019
  6. 06

    EPA Gives New ASTM Standard the Nod in Proposed Rule

    June 19, 2014
  7. 07

    NJ Assembly Approves Bill Granting Final Decision-Making Power to Office of Administrative Law

    May 6, 2013
  8. 08

    Warrantless Inspections are Not Warranted under the Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act

    April 22, 2013
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