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Suzanne M. Fisher-Edwards
Background
- Suzanne counsels clients in a wide array of environmental law matters, including regulatory and compliance issues and energy projects
- Suzanne is one of the most experienced Underground Storage Tank lawyers in Ohio
- She is a litigator with a wide range of experience
Areas of Experience and Focus
- Environmental counseling regarding issues affecting real estate development and transactions
- Brownfield redevelopment
- Represent landowners in wind development projects
- Oil and gas lease negotiation
- Assisting landowners, developers, lenders and Fortune 500 companies to obtain regulatory closure (no further action letters) for sites with petroleum contamination from USTs
- Compiling environmental documents and negotiating endorsements for the issuance of an environmental insurance policy in connection with the sale of a former manufacturing facility
- Coordinating environmental issues associated with a plant closing, including document retention, UST removal, remediation oversight and permit termination
- Environmental Litigation
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Represented several companies in Ohio Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Release Compensation Board coverage disputes
- Defense of asbestos claims against a gasket manufacturer
Achievements/Honors
- Nationally recognized in "The Best Lawyers in America" 2011
- Named a "Rising Star" of Environmental Law by Law & Politics, 2005-2008
Professional Involvement
- Commercial Real Estate Women of Columbus, Inc.- Committee Chair
- Columbus Bar Association
- Ohio State Bar Association, Environmental Law Committee, Secretary
- Columbus Metropolitan Club, Member 2008-2011
- Ohio Women Lawyers Association
- Columbus Council on World Affairs
Publications and Presentations
- Presented "Oil and Gas Groundwater Issues", Ohio Water Laws and Regulations, HalfMoon LLC Seminar, November 2011
- "Will You Marry Me? Wind Energy Development in Ohio", coauthor with David Nash, GEO News Wind Energy Edition, June 2009
- "Underground Storage Tanks: Property Owners, Potential Purchasers Need to Understand Compliance Regulations" Properties Magazine October 2007
- Presented at the November 2006 NBI "Advanced Issues in Real Estate" seminar
Education
- John Carroll University, BS Biology, 1995
- Cleveland Marshall College of Law, JD, cum laude, 1998
Bar Admissions/Licenses
- State of Ohio
- Northern District of Ohio
- Southern District of Ohio
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