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Adam Stolorow, Esq.
Adam Stolorow, Esq.
Sive, Paget & Riesel
Adam is an experienced litigator and principal at Sive, Paget & Riesel, where he specializes in environmental, land use, regulatory and municipal law. He represents private parties, municipalities and government agencies in a wide range of issues including the environmental review of development projects under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), compliance and resolution of environmental enforcement matters before federal, state, and local agencies, zoning challenges, redevelopment of brownfield properties and site remediation. His work on Superfund cases includes the representation of a multi-national corporation at a complex contaminated sediment site, the representation of a Native American nation as trustee for natural resource damages claims, and serving as a neutral in a Superfund allocation.
Adam is the co-chair of the Environmental Impact Assessment Committee of the New York State Bar Association Environmental & Energy Law Section, was a founding Board member of the NYC Climate Action Alliance, and served as counsel and President for NYC community gardens nonprofit Green Guerillas.
Adam previously worked as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Environmental Law Division of the New York City Law Department, where he defended the City鈥檚 initiative to 鈥済reen鈥 its yellow taxi fleet against claims of preemption under the Clean Air Act, brought litigation to defend the City鈥檚 watershed, and defended City infrastructure projects in cases involving SEQRA and the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), the use of City parkland, and eminent domain. Before attending law school, Adam served as the statewide volunteer coordinator and aide to then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama, and as a communications officer in the United States Army Signal Corps.