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New York

• Administrative Law
• Brownfields - Environmental
• Brownfields - Land Use
• CERCLA/Superfund
• Environmental Litigation
• NEPA and State NEPA - Environmental
• NEPA and State NEPA - Land Use
• Wetlands - Environmental
• Wetlands - Land Use
• Environmental

• Boston University (B.A., English; 1990)
• Pace University Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 2003)

• New York
• U.S. Federal District Courts: Southern District of New York; Eastern District of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources
• New York State Bar Association, Environmental Law Section

John H. Paul is an associate in the New York office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., with a practice focusing on environmental and energy law, and environmental quality review of project proposals.

His environmental practice focuses on regulatory compliance, permitting, and administrative law, as well as counseling clients on energy, takings, environmental quality review, and land use matters. John has helped obtain, modify and renew permits under state and local programs governing energy facility siting, air, stormwater, solid waste, and wetlands development. John’s compliance counseling addresses the handling, transport, and disposal of hazardous materials, as well as compliance with air, water, and solid waste permits. He has advised a wide range of clients on site contamination, remediation, and brownfields development matters.  He also drafts and negotiates a wide range of contracts related to asset and property acquisitions, environmental services, construction, and cleanup cost allocation matters.

His litigation experience includes representing private, municipal, and corporate clients in regulatory enforcement proceedings, claims under state and federal environmental statutes, commercial disputes, and state statutory and common law. His litigation experience also addresses groundwater contamination and associated claims of property damage and lost profits on property development. John is experienced in hazardous waste cost-recovery and contribution actions and with litigation under New York's Oil Spill and Environmental Quality Review Acts, including litigation concerning land use approvals.

John received his J.D. magna cum laude with an Environmental Law Certificate in 2003 from Pace University School of Law, and was awarded the White Plains Bar Association's Environmental Law Scholar Award. John served as Managing Editor of the Pace Environmental Law Review for 2002-2003. While in law school, John worked in Pace's Environmental Litigation Clinic, representing numerous non-profit organizations in state and federal environmental litigation under the Clean Water Act and New York's Environmental Quality Review Act. John also worked for a major pharmaceutical firm’s legal Environment, Health, & Safety group while in law school.

Before entering law school, John served in the U.S. Peace Corps in the Republic of Moldova, where he was an Associate Professor of English at the Moldovan state university.