Sive, Paget & Riesel P.C.

Adam Stolorow is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York. He earned a JD from New York University School of Law and a BA from Brown University. His practice focuses on environmental and natural resources, real estate, energy and utilities, litigation, and government matters.

Alexis Saba is an Associate at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York whose practice focuses on environmental and land use law and litigation, including advising clients on their obligations under New York City Local Law 97 of 2019. Her work includes counseling clients on multi-jurisdictional infrastructure and waterfront development projects, preparing applications for environmental permits and the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program, handling environmental due diligence for real estate financing, and litigating matters involving environmental liabilities, land use and zoning decisions, and construction. Prior to joining the firm in 2016, she worked in the Litigation group at Paul Hastings LLP, and earlier served as a post-graduate legal fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. She is a graduate of Cornell Law School and Williams College.

Amy Lynn Cassidy is an attorney based in New York, New York. She received her legal education at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She is affiliated with the firm Sive, Paget, & Riesel, PC, located on Lexington Avenue in New York. Her profile lists English as a language she speaks and writes.

Christine Leas is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York. She earned a B.A. with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1991. Her practice focuses on environmental regulatory compliance and transactional matters, including brownfield and contaminated site redevelopments and the environmental aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Before joining Sive, Paget & Riesel, she was a member of the Environmental Practice Group of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae in Hartford, Connecticut.

Claire McNulty is an associate at the law firm Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York, New York.

Dan Chorost is an attorney at Sive, Paget & Riesel P.C. in New York, New York. He attended New York University School of Law and graduated in 1996. He represents clients in environmental matters, environmental litigation, and general litigation.

Dane Warren is an attorney at Sive, Paget & Riesel P.C. in New York, New York. Their practice focuses on environmental law.

Daniel Riesel is Senior Counsel at Sive, Paget & Riesel in New York. He earned a B.S. from Union College in 1958 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1961. His practice covers environmental litigation, white collar defense, civil rights, and commercial matters, ranging from pre-trial practice in complex litigation to appellate advocacy. He has handled CERCLA administrative and judicial actions, toxic tort suits, land use projects, and administrative proceedings involving the siting of energy facilities and other environmental issues.

David Yudelson is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York, focusing on environmental and real estate law. He earned a B.A. from Rockefeller College at the State University of New York at Albany and a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law. His practice includes small- and large-scale inland and waterfront development, coordinating land use approvals, environmental review compliance, and environmental remediation. He also handles oil and chemical spill response and represents municipalities, water districts, and school districts in cost recovery claims against polluters of soil and drinking water.

Elizabeth Knauer is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York, New York. She earned a BA from Fordham University in 1996 and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1999. Her practice focuses on environmental and natural resources matters, including class action and litigation.

John (Jack) F. Nelson is an attorney at Sive, Paget & Riesel P.C. in New York, New York. His practice focuses on environmental litigation.

Jeffrey B. Gracer is Of Counsel at Sive, Paget & Riesel in New York. He earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1981 and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1985, where he was a Charles Evans Hughes Fellow, and he clerked for Chief Judge Myron H. Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. His environmental practice covers hazardous substance and toxic tort litigation, environmental permitting and approvals, resolution of regulatory enforcement matters, environmental impact assessments, contaminated site remediation and brownfield redevelopment, and environmental insurance coverage. He is a former Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and founded the Environmental Program at the Vance Center for International Justice.

Jennifer Coghlan is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York. She earned an A.B. from Duke University in 1998 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2003. Her practice focuses on environmental review under NEPA, SEQRA and New York City's CEQR, and she has litigated SEQRA and NEPA challenges as well as environmental matters before federal, state, and local trial and appellate courts. She has handled claims for recovery of remediation costs under CERCLA and the New York State Navigation Law, guided sites through the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program, and represented clients in administrative proceedings before agencies including the U.S. EPA and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

John-Patrick Curran is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York, and his practice focuses on environmental and construction law. He earned a B.A. from Pace University in 1988 and a J.D. from St. John's University School of Law in 1991. He represents real property owners, operators and developers, construction managers, contractors, design professionals and lenders on matters involving real estate acquisition and development, construction and procurement contracts, brownfield and contaminated site remediation, and related commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He previously spent 23 years at the law firm Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP and serves as an adjunct professor in Construction Law and Practice at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate.

Joyce E. Kung is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York, having joined the firm in 2016. She holds a B.S. from Duke University, an M.S. in Organic Chemistry from the University of North Carolina, and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law. Before joining the firm, she served as the Connecticut Director of Environment Northeast (now Acadia Center), where she acted as lead counsel on matters before the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and worked on energy policy and regulatory solutions. Her practice covers environmental law, litigation, renewable energy, and intellectual property disputes and transactions involving patents, trademarks, and copyrights.

Kayley R. McGrath is an Associate at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York, New York. She attended Georgetown Law.

Kevin A. Rogers is an attorney at Sive, Paget & Riesel P.C. in New York, New York. He studied at New York University School of Law and graduated in 2020. His practice covers Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources, and Environmental Litigation matters.

Maggie Macdonald is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel in New York, where she focuses her practice on environmental litigation, environmental impact review, and land use issues. Since joining the firm in 2011, she has worked on brownfields and (E) designation submissions for New York City sites, storm water pollution prevention, and landlord-tenant disputes, along with enforcement under federal environmental laws including CERCLA, RCRA, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. She also works with recycler and consumer clients on electronics recycling matters and has substantial E-discovery experience. She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2008 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2011.

Marc Steven Reisler is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York, NY. He holds a B.A. from McGill University, an M.A. from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law. He has over 30 years of experience representing clients in finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions, with a particular focus on renewable energy. His work includes representing lenders and borrowers in solar, energy storage, wind, geothermal, and renewable natural gas project financings, advising developers on their renewable energy projects, and handling M&A transactions in the renewable energy and technology sectors.

Mark A. Chertok is an attorney at Sive, Paget & Riesel P.C. in New York. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970. He helps clients address environmental legal issues, and also assists clients with environmental litigation and land use and zoning matters.

Margaret (Meg) Holden is an attorney at Sive, Paget & Riesel P.C. in New York. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. Her practice focuses on environmental litigation and related environmental matters, and she represents clients in the New York area.

Michael Bogin is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York. He earned a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law. His practice focuses on environmental regulation and permitting, including matters involving wastewater and stormwater discharges, tidal and freshwater wetlands, and solid and hazardous waste management. He has litigated CERCLA cost recovery and toxic tort claims, handled voluntary and brownfield cleanup matters, and represented municipalities and school districts on environmental compliance issues.

Pamela Esterman is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York, where she practices environmental law. Her work includes compliance counseling, litigating multi-party allocation proceedings, obtaining permits for residential and industrial development projects, climate change planning, and advising on corporate and real estate transactions, due diligence, environmental audits, and brownfields redevelopment. She serves as a mediator and arbitrator, handling disputes involving environmental, land use, employment, insurance coverage, construction, and toxic tort claims. She currently serves as an adjunct professor at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches environmental law.

Paul D. Casowitz is Of Counsel at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York. He earned his Juris Doctor from New York Law School and also holds engineering degrees from the City College of the City University of New York and a business degree from New York University. His practice focuses on environmental and natural resources, government contracts, and construction and development matters.

Scott Furman is a Principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. in New York. He earned a B.B.A. in Finance from Emory University in 1982 and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1985, and he completed a Fellowship in International Law at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. His practice focuses on environmental matters, including Brownfield Redevelopment and Voluntary Cleanup Programs, and he also handles transactional work such as corporate acquisitions and renewable energy projects, including solar photovoltaic deals.