David B. Farer

Environmental, Mediation
600 South Avenue West, P.O. Box 580
Westfield, New Jersey 070910580


Environmental

Admitted

1978, Massachusetts; 1979, New Jersey; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Law School

Boston University, J.D., 1978

Law School Graduation Year

1978

College

Lafayette College, A.B., 1975

Memberships

New Jersey State (Director, Corporate and Business Law Section, 1985-1994; Chairman, ECRA Committee, 1985-1991; Member, Environmental Law Section), American (Member, Environment, Energy and Resources Section; Former Vice Chair, Solid and Hazardous Waste Committee and Brownfields Liaison) Bar Associations.

Biographical

Law Clerk to Honorable William A. Dreier and Honorable James H. Coleman, Jr., 1978-1979. Ward Bowie, Solicitors, London, England, 1979-1981. Author, Books: ISRA Compliance: Environmental Issues in Transactions and Brownfield Development (5th Ed.), ICLE, 1999, 2000, 2003; ECRA/ISRA Compliance, ICLE, 1985, 1988, 1993; New Jersey Underground Storage Tank Law, ICLE, 1987, 1990. Author, Transaction-Triggered Environmental Laws, Environmental Aspects of Real Estate Transactions, SEER 3rd Ed., 1999. ECRA/ISRA Compliance, Matthew Bender New Jersey Transaction Guide, 1985-1989, 1994. Co-Author: with Hon. William A. Dreier and Hannah Goldman, Esq., Products Liability and Toxic Tort Law in New Jersey: A Practitioner's Guide, ICLE, 1988, 1990. Selected Articles: Brownfields Redevelopment Initiatives and Transaction-Triggered Environmental Laws: Latest Developments and Contractual Allocation of Environmental Risks in Transactions: Case Law Developments, ALI-ABA Course Materials; The Impact of Environmental Law on Real Estate and Business Transactions: Brownfields & Beyond, October 2003; Statutory and Equitable Defenses to CERCLA Private Cost Recovery Actions, ABA Course Materials Annual RCRA/CERCLA Update, 1999; Industrial Site Recovery Act: New Jersey's Chosen Road to ECRA Reform, Toxics Law Reporter, Vol. 8 No. 5, July 7, 1993; U.S. States Lead Commercial Cleanups and Superfund Law Cleans Up the States, Law Society (England) Gazette, September 12 and October 3, 1990, Vol. 87 Nos. 32 and 35; Transaction-Triggered ECRA: The New Wave in Cleanup Law, National Law Journal: February 27, 1989, Vol. 11. No. 25; ECRA Verdict: The Successes and Failures of the Premiere Transaction-Triggered Environmental Law, 5 Pace Environmental Law Review, Number 1, Fall, 1987; Protecting Business Clients Against Prospective Environmental Legislation, The Practical Lawyer, ALI-ABA, July, 1987; Top Ten List of Practical ECRA Reforms, 130 New Jersey L.J. 961, March 23, 1992; ECRA Developments, 118 New Jersey L.

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