Gail Suchman is a partner in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group in the firm's New York office.
Gail has more than 30 years' experience in all facets of environmental and energy law and policy, advising clients on transactions, litigation and regulatory matters. Her practice includes permitting and compliance, transactional due diligence, litigation and legislative matters. She works closely with real estate and industrial developers on traditional environmental and land use matters, as well as community and governmental matters, sustainability, and resilience.
Gail is a member of the firm's ESG and Sustainability team and advises clients on disclosure rules in connection with climate impacts and "green advertising." She works on renewable energy and energy storage projects, the conversion of traditional refineries to biofuel production, and carbon capture and sequestration.
Prior to private practice, Gail had a long career in public service, including more than ten years as an assistant attorney general in the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office, three years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region V, in Chicago, and three years as regional director of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. She taught for several years Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development Law at Columbia Law School and Environmental Science and Policy at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. In 2003-4, she was invited to South Africa as visiting faculty at the University of Cape Town Law School and to advise the new government on environmental legislation and regulation.
Gail also served as senior environmental counsel for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, representing communities in litigation and legislative work involving solid waste management, energy, brownfields, and environmental justice.
