Practice Areas

Environmental

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Brenda J. Joyce

Partner

bjoyce@jaeckle.com

Brenda J. Joyce is a partner in the Firm's Environmental practice group. Ms. Joyce focuses in the areas of compliance counseling, enforcement proceedings and transactions work, including environmental due diligence and State Environmental Quality Review Act matters. She also concentrates in Superfund litigation, and in the area of solid and hazardous waste regulation. Ms. Joyce has assisted owners of contaminated properties in negotiating with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to agree on the remediation to be undertaken, and in recovering cleanup costs from responsible parties. Ms. Joyce has also represented a major commercial hazardous waste disposal facility operator in permit application proceedings. She has substantial experience in counseling industrial facility operators in connection with day-to-day hazardous waste management issues, permitting strategies, and enforcement matters.

Education:

State University of New York at Buffalo (B.S., magna cum laude, 1983, J.D., magna cum laude, 1986); Publications Editor, Buffalo Law Review, 1985-1986; Recipient, Henry W. Box Award for outstanding work in first year

Admissions:

1987 New York State Bar; 1987 New York Courts; 1994 U.S. District Court, Western District of New York

Principal Area(s) of Practice:

Environmental Law (State Environmental Quality Review Act, compliance counseling, enforcement proceedings, Superfund litigation, solid and hazardous waste regulation)

Experience:

Ms. Joyce practices before the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the United States Environmental Agency.

Memberships & Offices:

Erie County Bar Association (Member, Environmental Law Committee); New York State Bar Association (Member, Environmental Law Section)

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