Charlie is an experienced attorney who primarily concentrates his practice on commercial, environmental, governmental, and land-use matters, including federal and state litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. He represents corporate, governmental, and individual clients in commercial matters involving business, corporate, and governmental disputes; unfair trade practices; contracts; class actions; and injunctive-relief matters.
Charlie has obtained favorable court judgments and orders and has successfully negotiated settlements in both mediation and litigation proceedings in state and federal courts, including appeals to the NYS Court of Appeals and the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His litigation experience also includes actions at the trial and appellate levels in NYS Article 78 proceedings and declaratory-judgment actions challenging and defending governmental actions in State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), rezoning, and land-use permit proceedings. Charlie handles both prosecution and defense service for business and governmental clients in multi-party environmental-based litigation for property and personal-injury damages as well as in Clean Water Act compliance and enforcement matters.
Charlie also negotiates complex private-public partnership contracts involving water and wastewater projects; energy-performance contracts; the creation of water and sewer districts, public authorities, and public-benefit corporations and the promulgation of rules and regulations for those corporations; compliance and training with the NYS Public Authorities Accountability Act (PAAA); and intergovernmental agreements.