Bio

Richard J. Conway, Jr. formerly chaired the Environmental Law practice group. In his practice areas of environmental, real estate and business law, his focus includes buyers and sellers of assets and shares; banks and borrowers in loans and other matters; landlords and tenants; applicants in municipal land use applications; experts and consultants (drafting of permit applications, sampling and cleanup plans); local, state and federal agencies (within and outside of New Jersey); and consultants and licensed site remediation professionals ("LSRPs") (including against a board complaint). Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Conway was a branch manager and lending officer of a major New Jersey bank. Over the past 35 years Mr. Conway has authored and developed diverse articles and presentations. He has spoken to a wide range of audiences at many different seminars, meetings and courses. Topics have included the New Jersey Environmental Cleanup Responsibility Act (now the Industrial Site Recovery Act ["ISRA"]), the Site Remediation Reform Act ("SRRA"), environmental enforcement by NJDEP USEPA and others, other environmental laws and their impact on business planning, environmental restrictions and classification exception areas, reporting and disclosure obligations, brownfields, and underground storage tank issues. Early in his career, he was a law clerk for Judge W. Dreier, New Jersey Superior Court (PJAD, retired) and Justice Coleman, New Jersey Supreme Court, (retired) then Law & Chancery Divisions, Union & Mercer Counties, New Jersey (1979-1980).