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 Douglas H. Ward
Albany, New York
Douglas H. Ward has extensive federal and state civil practice experience at both the trial and appellate levels. As an Assistant Attorney General from 1984 to 1995, he served as either the lead attorney or the supervising attorney in hundreds of environmental cases, including air, water, wetlands regulation and the State Environmental Quality Review Act. Mr. Ward also represents the wind energy industry on regulation and siting issues. He is a graduate of Brown University and Albany Law School.
- Administrative Hearings & Adjudication
- Administrative Investigations
- Administrative Officers & Agents
- Administrative Rulemaking
- Licensing
- Regulatory Enforcement
- Eminent Domain
- Environmental Law
- Solid Waste
- Government Agencies & Programs
- State & Local Agencies
- Litigation & Appeals
- State Appellate Practice
- Real Estate Law
- Land Use & Zoning
- State, Local & Municipal
- Municipal Liability
- State Government
- Energy Law
- Alternative Energy
- Electric Power
- Hydroelectricity
- Public Utilities
- 60% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
- New York
- U.S. District Court Northern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- Albany Law School Union University, Albany, New York,
1973
J.D.
Law Review:
Albany Law Review, Notes Editor, 1971 - 1973
- Brown University, Providence, RI, USA,
1969
B.A.
Major: English
- Note: An Analysis of Chapter 822 of the New York Laws of 1971 in Light of the Religion Clause of the United State Constitution, 36 Albany Law Review 369, 1971
- Prospects for Safer Communities: Emergency Response, Community Right to Know, and Prevention of Chemical Accidents, 14 Harvard Environmental Law Review 134, 1990
- Beyond Compliance Enforcement, 8 National Environmental Enforcement Journal 3, 1993
- Ward, Sommer & Moore, Partner,
1995
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1999
- New York State Department of Law, Section Chief, Environmental Protection Bureau,
1984
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1995
- Herzog, Nichols, Engstrom and Kopolowitz, P.C., Associate Attorney,
1983
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1984
- Helm, Shapiro, Ayers, Anito & Aldrich, Associate Attorney,
1979
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1983
- Saratoga Springs City Attorney's Office, Assistant City Attorney,
1980
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1981
- Robert J. Kafin, Esq., Associate Attorney,
1977
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1979
- Adirondack Park Agency, Senior Attorney,
1974
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1977
- Richard J. Bartlett, Justice of the Supreme Court, Confidential Law Clerk,
1973
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1974
- Hon. Richard J. Bartlett, Law Clerk
- Open Space Project, Saratoga Springs, NY,
1993
- Present
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