Irv Freilich and Susanne Peticolas to Speak on New Jersey's LSRP Program at ABA Regional CLE Workshop
Irv Freilich and Susanne Peticolas, Directors in Gibbons Real Property & Environmental Department, will be panelists at ABA’s upcoming Regional CLE Workshop on October 27, 2010, titled "The Road Ahead: The Obstacles and Pitfalls to New Jersey’s Implementation of the LSRP Program" at Seton Hall Law School. For more information or to register for the program, click here.
The program will feature interactive panels composed of nationally known environmental lawyers, in-house counsel and consultants who will discuss the details and implications of New Jersey’s Site Remediation Reform Act (SRRA), and in particular the newly minted Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) program. The impact of the LSRP program on environmental practitioners will be far reaching and extraordinary. From the manner in which environmental consultants will be retained and site investigations and clean-ups accomplished, to the ethical, work product and litigation considerations counsel will need to evaluate and address, the LSRP Program represents a sea-change in the way environmental counsel will practice their trade in the years to come.
The program has already dramatically changed the relationship between the environmental consultant and the client and raised the specter of frivolous suits from disgruntled clients. In addition, NJ Department of Environmental Protection has had to propose revisions to the SRRA interim rules relaxing certain remediation deadlines. These developments highlight the complex issues presented by the transition of New Jersey’s site remediation process from NJDEP command and control to private oversight by LSRPs and underscore the need to keep abreast of a rapidly developing area.
