David E. Nash

• Background
  • Dave’s practice emphasizes traditional areas of environmental legal experience plus advanced and renewable energy, corporate sustainability, climate change, and emerging environmental and energy technologies
  • Dave is a co-founder of Corporate Sustainability Network (formerly Sustainable Cleveland)
• Areas of Experience and Focus
  • Corporate Sustainability strategy design and implementation
  • Advanced and renewable energy permitting and regulatory counseling for developers and owners, including counseling for first offshore wind turbine project proposed for Lake Erie
  • Successfully negotiated regulatory hurdles on first functioning wind turbine on the southern shore of Lake Erie
  • Counseling on Renewable Energy Credit, Energy Efficiency, and Carbon emission credit and offset projects
  • Climate Change risk management counseling
  • Real Estate Transactions, including lease counseling for landowners on wind farm and solar farm projects
  • Corporate M&A due diligence and environmental risk and contract negotiation and drafting
  • Environmental litigation and enforcement
  • Brownfield redevelopment issues
  • Development, implementation, and monitoring of compliance programs
  • Perform numerous roles in Superfund matters Regulatory counseling for all environmental media
  • Collaborate with partners and stakeholders of a corporation to minimize transaction costs in business, real estate and regulatory negotiations
  • Negotiating consultant contracts and providing direct oversight for an array of environmental investigations and remediation projects
• Achievements/Honors
  • Recipient of the 2009 Green Lantern Award for Champions of Sustainability, presented by Crains Cleveland Business
  • Nationally recognized in "The Best Lawyers in America" 2010
  • Listed as “SuperLawyer” in 2009 by Law & Politics
  • Named by Chambers & Partners as a leading practitioner in Environmental Law in Ohio, 2004-2010
  • Ohio State Bar Foundation, Fellow, Class of 2001
• Professional Involvement
  • American Bar Association Renewable Energy Teleconference Series, Co-Chair, 2008-2009
  • Member, Great Lakes Energy Development Task Force 2006-2008
  • Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition, Executive Committee, Corporate Secretary
  • American Bar Association, Vice Chair Smart Growth and Urban Policy Committee
  • Ohio State Bar Association, former chair of the Environmental Law Committee
  • Served as chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Cleveland Bar Association
  • Corporate Sustainability Network, Co-Founder
• Publications and Presentations
  • "Environmental Risk Update: What's Coming But Not Here Yet", Risk and Insurance Management Society, November 2009
  • "The Current Regulatory Environment and Its Impact on High Performance Building", RPM Executive Forum, November 2009
  • "Blue Acres is the Place for Me", Offshore Wind Energy Summit North America, October 2009
  • "Sustainability Law-The Next Generation,” OSBA Environmental Law Seminar, April 2009
  • “Harvesting the Winds of Change-Legal and Regulatory Solutions in Wind Development,” Green Energy Ohio Renewable Energy Showcase, March 2009
  • “Coordinating the Regulatory Approval Process-One Stop Shopping for Renewable Energy Project Permits,” American Council on Renewable Energy Teleconference, January 2009
  • “Sustainable Business and the Climate Change and Energy Connection,” Northeast Ohio Association of Corporate Counsel, January 2008
  • “On The Job” feature, Crains Cleveland Business March 3-9, 2008
  • “Engineering a Sustainable Future,” Cleveland Engineering Society Conference, October 2007
  • “Sustainable Plastics,” Plastic Shipping Container Institute in Washington, D.C., October 2007
  • “Climate Change and Ohio’s Economic Future,” Manufacturers Education Council/Ohio Chamber of Commerce Conference, July 2007
  • Presented at the 2007 Business and Sustainability Conference sponsored by the Conference Board in Washington, D.C.
  • “Palm Trees on Lake Erie” The Cleveland Bar Journal, November 2006
  • “Sustainable Development” The Cleveland Society for Engineers 2004 Annual Meeting
  • Great Lakes Sustainable Water Symposium 2004
  • “Wind Turbine and Component Manufacturing Opportunities” The Ohio Wind Power Conference
  • Co-Author, Ohio Environmental Law, 1992-1993
  • “Negotiating for Protection Against Environmental Risks in Business Transactions” The Cleveland Bar Journal, July/August 1997
  • Co-Author “Superfund Site Apportionment of Liability” Natural Resources and Environment, Vol. 12, American Bar Association, Summer 1997
• Education
  • Wake Forest University, BA Politics magna cum laude, 1978; Phi Beta Kappa
  • Duke University School of Law, JD with honors, 1981
• Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • State of Ohio
  • Northern District of Ohio
  • Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • United States Supreme Court