Member at the firm N. W. Bernstein & Associates, LLC
Areas of Practice
Environmental Law; Environmental Litigation; Occupational Safety & Health Litigation
Admitted
1964, New York; 1983, Michigan
Law School
Columbia University School of Law, LL.B., cum laude, 1964
Membership
State Bar of Michigan; New York State and American Bar Associations.
Biography
Member, Board of Editors, Columbia Law Review, 1963-1964. Author: "The Enviro-Chem Settlement; Superfund Problem Solving," Environmental Law Reporter, December, 1983; "To Clean Up Landfills, The Leader Should Be Municipalities Using Economic Incentives to Settle," Environmental Law Reporter, January, 1989; "Superfund Reform Needs Drastic Simplification," Environmental Law Reporter, January, 1995. Adjunct Professor, Wayne State University Law School, Torts, 1987. Guest Lecturer on Hazardous Waste Site Matters: Yale Law School, 1985; University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1986. Faculty Member, The Practicing Law Institute's 1988 Conference on Hazardous Waste Litigation. Coordinator, New York Landfills Litigation Settlement Group, 1987-1988. Associate Counsel, Ford Motor Company, 1979-1988. President, Columbia Club of Michigan, 1980-1983.
Reported Cases
In re the Revenue Properties Litigation Cases, 451 F.2d 310 (1st Cir. 1971); Natural Resources Defense Council v. U.S.E.P.A., 683 F.2d 752 (3rd Cir. 1982); National Association of Metal Finishers v. E.P.A., 719 F.2d 624 (3rd Cir. 1983); General Motors Corp. v. U.S.E.P.A., 738 F.2d 97 (3rd Cir. 1984); City of New York v. Exxon Corp., 633 F.Supp. 609 (2nd Cir. 1986); State of N.J. Dept. of Environmental Protection v. Gloucester Environmental Management Services, Inc., 719 F.Supp. 325 (3rd Cir. 1989); U.S. v. Kramer, 757 F.Supp. 397 (3rd Cir. 1991); U.S. v. Alcan Aluminum Corp., et al, 964 F.2d 252 (3rd Cir. 1992); American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 965 F.2d 962 (11th Cir. 1992); U.S. v. Alcan Aluminum Corp., 990 F.2d 711 (2nd Cir. 1993); Honeywell International, Inc. v. E.P.A., 372 F.3d 441 (D.C. Cir. 2004).
Born
1938
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