Susan A. Bernstein, Attorney At Law

1000 Winter Street, Suite 1100 Waltham, MA 02451-1476
Tel: 617-367-5858, 781-290-5858 Fax: 781-290-5789
E-Mail: Sabernlaw@aol.com Web: www.Sabernlaw.com

     Susan A. Bernstein, Attorney at Law, operates a sole practice in which she concentrates in the areas of environmental, real estate, and land use law; permitting and regulatory compliance.

      Attorney Bernstein represents individuals and developers, businesses, corporations, property owners, condominium associations, telecommunication companies and financial institutions. Attorney Bernstein also represents buyers and sellers in commercial and residential real estate transactions, and related corporate matters. She has extensive experience with projects in the City of Boston and other communities throughout Eastern Massachusetts and has appeared before numerous boards and commissions to obtain permits and licenses, most particularly the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection ("DEP").

     Among the areas in which she has provided consultation to her clients are: hazardous waste; administrative enforcement actions; wetlands, chapter 91 waterways, water discharge and air permits, asbestos, zoning relief, MEPA, Brownfields, and negotiations with local, state, and federal agencies. In addition, she has represented defendants in federal Superfund cases and other matters before the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"). She is currently, special environmental counsel to several law firms.

     In her career, Attorney Bernstein has worked on several major projects including: Rowes Wharf, Boston University's Center for Advanced Biotechnology Research, The Pilot House-Phase I, Russia Wharf, the Fleet Boston Pavilion (formerly Harborlights), Legal Sea Foods, The Pine Street Inn, CVS Pharmacies, and the United States Postal Service, Marriott Courtyard at South Bay, and Harvard Commons.

     In the hazardous waste field, Attorney Bernstein has reviewed numerous Phase I and II reports for clients who own or are contemplating purchase or sales of properties, including gasoline stations, throughout Eastern and Central Massachusetts. She has worked extensively with environmental engineers and monitored environmental compliance reports including IRAs, LRAs, RAOs, and AULs, and provided legal counsel to property owners through various stages of the Massachusetts Contingency Plan ("MCP") for several industrial, commercial, and residential sites in Massachusetts. Attorney Bernstein has also counseled clients about contaminated sites in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Ohio, and Virginia.

     Attorney Bernstein is currently a member of the Boston Bar Association's Environmental Steering Committee and a past co-chair of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Committee, (during which she co-chaired its seminar on "Environmental and Land Use: Emerging Issues"). She is also qualified by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Woman Owned Business Enterprise ("WBE"). Attorney Bernstein is active in several civic, charitable and business organizations and served from 1990 to 2000 as Chair and Member of the Town of Stoughton Planning Board and is a resident of Waltham, MA. She established her sole practice in 1997, prior to which she was with the Boston law firm of Rubin and Rudman, LLP.

     Attorney Bernstein holds a B.S. degree from The American University, an M.S. degree from Hunter College of C.U.N.Y., and a J.D. from the New England School of Law. She is a member in good standing of the Massachusetts Bar, and admitted to practice in the courts of Massachusetts and the Federal District Court of Massachusetts. She has written articles on environmental permitting and regulations, which have appeared in the Massachusetts Bar Association's Property Law Section Newsletter, the MCLE Massachusetts Environmental Law Handbook, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, New England's Environment, and Women's Business. She has been quoted in The Boston Globe on waterfront and development issues.

     Prior to her law career, Attorney Bernstein was a senior administrator at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health ("DPH"), where she was involved with environmental and health policy. In her diverse regulatory practice she maintains contacts at several government agencies.

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