Title:                    Member

E-Mail:          nmendel@chsm-law.com

Practice Areas:

Practices environmental law: property transfers and brownfields redevelopment; accessing private and public funding sources for investigation and clean up; the Connecticut Transfer Act; environmental compliance needs; bio-medical waste; permits & licensing;  State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and United States Environmental Protection Agency proceedings.

Active with the Coalition for Clean Sites. Writer and speaker on environmental issues before both the business and legal communities. Lectured on the impact of environmental issues on real property value at the University of Connecticut, and was a Facilitator of a Legislative Brownfields Seminar, conducted at the Connecticut State Legislature.

Education:       

McGill University, Diploma of Collegial Studies, Biological Sciences, 1973

Ecole de Masseur Kinesitherapie de Grenoble, Diplome D'Etat in Physical Therapy, High Honors, 1978

Yale University, Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, 1989

University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D. with Honors, 1992

Bar & Court Admissions

United States District Court, District of Connecticut, 1994

State of Connecticut, 1992

Professional Associations & Memberships

A member of the Connecticut and New Haven County Bar Associations;

A member of the Conservation and Environmental Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association (Chair- Executive Committee); 

Environmental Law Committee and Real Property Section of the New Haven County Bar Association; 

Environmental Professionals Organization of Connecticut; 

Legal Advisory Board of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment; 

Coalition for Clean Sites; 

National Association of Women Business Owners;

The Society of Women Environmental Professionals;

Board of Directors of the Yale Club of New Haven.

Past Vice President of Congregation Mishkan Israel. 

Past President of the Yale Degree Special Students Alumni Association.

Adjunct Lecturer of Environmental Law at  University of New Haven.

Publications

Co-author and editor of a series of Environmental Handbooks for Industry for the Czech Republic: I & II (Rockefeller Brothers, 3M, United Technologies Corporation and Mininberg & Associates),  co-author of the Russian Environmental Handbook for Industry, (Overseas Private Investment Corporation, University of Connecticut Environmental Research Institute) (1992, 1993, 1994).