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Bloomfield Hills,
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Direct Line:
(248) 642-2531
Fax:
(248) 642-7791
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Brian J. Considine is a Senior Attorney with Dawda, Mann, Mulcahy & Sadler, PLC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate environmental counseling, commercial real estate due diligence and environmental/toxics litigation. His practice also includes counseling clients on Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
Mr. Considine's environmental practice includes assisting a variety of corporate clients with transactional matters involving the acquisition, sale and/or cleanup and closure of environmentally impaired properties. In that capacity, he has negotiated with a number of state environmental protection agencies in the midwest, as well as with landowners, developers, and tenants to reach creative resolutions on a wide variety of environmental issues. He also has assisted clients with environmental due diligence and brownfield funding pertaining to property acquisition, including coordinating activities and strategies with environmental consultants. A large part of Mr. Considine's practice is his pro-active counseling to clients on ways to avoid or minimize environmental liability.
Mr. Considine's litigation experience includes the representation of corporate clients in toxic tort litigation and in industrial contamination claims. He has appeared before federal and state judicial and administrative forums.
He is also one of the few attorneys in Michigan to earn the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional designation and was the first attorney in Michigan to become a LEED AP BD+C specialist in building design and construction.
Mr. Considine earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 1995. He earned an M.S. in Environmental Science from Indiana University in 1991 and a B.S. in Biology from Marquette University in 1988. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, as well as the Washington, D.C. Bar, and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan. Mr. Considine also is a member of the Michigan Association of Environmental Professionals and the American Bar Association.
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Areas of Practice
Environmental Law
Environmental Administrative Law
Environmental Litigation
Sustainability
Bar Admissions
Michigan, 1995
District of Columbia, 1997
Education
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Detroit, Michigan, 1995
J.D.
Honors: Cum Laude
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, 1991
M.S.
Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1988
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Published Works
"Green Alternatives to Post Construction Storm Water Management"
Michigan Environmental Law Journal
Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer, 2006
"Michigan's 404 Program: How Will Rapanos Affect Us?"
Michigan Bar Journal Online
Vol. 85, No. 11,
November, 2006
"Green Building and Stormwater Management can Grow in Residential Settings"
Land Development
Vol. 19, No. 4
Fall, 2006
Dawda Mann's Environmental and Business Law Blog: dawdamann.com/enviroblog
Professional Associations
and Memberships
State Bar of Michigan
Member
District of Columbia Bar
Member
American Bar Association
Member
Michigan Association of Environmental Professionals
Member
U.S. Green Building Council - Detroit Regional Chapter
Member
Birth Information
1966 Detroit, Michigan |
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