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" 1995-2012
• Listed as “SuperLawyer” in 2004-2012 by Law & Politics
• Named by Chambers & Partners as a leading practitioner in Environmental Law in Ohio, 2004-2011
• Ohio State Bar Foundation, Fellow, Class of 2001
• AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5.0 Peer Review Rating from Martindale Hubbell

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

• "H₂OHIO-Building Sustainable Offshore Wind Power In Lake Erie" Ohio State Bar Association 26^th  Annual Environment, Energy and Resources Law Seminar, April 7, 2011
•  "No Guts, No Glory-Litigation Risks In Offshore Wind" American Bar Association 20th Annual TTEL Spring CLE Meeting, New Frontier: Science Technology & the Law in 2011; April 2, 2011
• "Developing Offshore Wind Power in Reverse: Community Driven Development Models" Offshore Wind Energy in North America, Great Lakes Conference; September 9, 2010
•  "Harvesting the Winds of Change: County and Local Stakeholder Involvement in Wind Negotiations" Ohio Township Association, August 2010
•  "Developing Offshore Wind Power in Reverse: Community Driven Development Models" ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Quick Teleconference,  June 23, 2010
• "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