Nancy Kaplan is a partner in Keegan Werlin's Environmental and Land Use group. She represents municipalities, developers, corporations and individuals in all aspects of environmental and land use permitting, litigation, adjudication, negotiation, enforcement and defense. She has adjudicated a substantial number of wetland appeals and represented several local water boards in administrative appeals of state Water Management Act Permits. Ms. Kaplan has extensive experience in all aspects of Brownfields Redevelopment, the management of complex hazardous material and oil sites, including manufactured gas plant sites, and the negotiation of contracts for access to contaminated land, the purchase and sale of real estate, and the resolution of past and future liabilities. A majority of her practice involves representing municipalities as Special Town Counsel/City Solicitor on a wide variety of environmental matters, including the siting, permitting, closure and redevelopment of solid waste landfills and transfer stations. She has acted as Hearing Officer for over ten Solid Waste Site Assignment hearings in Massachusetts.

Before joining the firm in 1996, Ms. Kaplan practiced environmental law in the private sector for eight years and, before that, worked in the Legal Office of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works . Ms. Kaplan is the author of Public Land Law in the three-volume treatise, Massachusetts Environmental Law (MCLE), and a former Adjunct Professor at Suffolk University, Boston University, and the University of Massachusetts Boston. She received her Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 1988 and completed her Bachelor of Science degree from The Pennsylvania State University in 1984.

Ms. Kaplan is a member and past Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Environmental Law Section and sits on the Board of Directors for the National Brownfields Association (NBA) and the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts & Rhode Island Chapter of the NBA.

AREAS OF PRACTICE
Environmental Law
Land Use & Zoning

BAR ADMISSIONS
Massachusetts, 1988
U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 1990
U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 1995

EDUCATION
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988
J.D.

Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 1984
B.S., Bachelor of Science
Honors: With Honors
Major: Individual and Family Studies

Exeter University, Exeter, England

PUBLISHED WORKS
Massachusetts Public Land Law, MCLE, Mass. Environmental Law, 1991

Massachusetts Public Land Law, MCLE, Mass. Environmental Law, 1993

Massachusetts Public Land Law, MCLE, Mass. Environmental Law, 1995

Massachusetts Public Land Law, MCLE, Mass. Environmental Law, 1998

Solid Waste Management and Regulation, Massachusetts Association of Health Boards, 1998
Massachusetts Public Land Law, MCLE, Mass. Environmental Law, 2006

REPRESENTATIVE CASES
U.S. v Certain Land In Barnstable, MA, et al, U.S. v Charles George Trucking Co., Inc. et al, Finard & Company, LLC v Arlington Conservation Commmission, Mass.App.Ct.

CLASSES/SEMINARS TAUGHT
Landfills Can Be Smart Growth Sites, National Brownfields Association, 2007

Private Partnerships: Redeveloping Public Buildings and Facilities, EPS Brownsfields, 2006

Real Estate Basics, MCLE, 1998

Environmental Insurance Law Update, BBA, 1995

Emerging Issues in Solid Waste Management, BBA, 1992

Legal Issues in Solid Waste Management, BBA, 1990

Teacher, Environmental Law, University of Massachusetts, 1992 - 1996

Teacher, Advanced Environmental Law, Suffolk University, 1994 - 1996

Teacher, Environmental Law and Litigation, Boston University Metropolitan College, 1993 - 1994

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

National Brownfields Association
Executive Committee, Board of Directors

Massachusetts/Rhode Island Chapter of The National Brownfields Association
Executive Committee

Boston Bar Association Environmental Law Section, 1997 - 1999
Chair

Boston Bar Association Solid Waste Committee, 1994 - 1996
Chair

Boston Bar Association Recycling Task Force, 1995 - 1997

Founding Member

PAST EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS

McGregor & Shea, Senior Attorney, 1990 - 1996

DiCara, Selig, Sawyer & Holt, Associate, 1988 - 1990

Massachusetts Department of Public Works, Legal Intern, 1986 - 1988

University of Massachusetts, Boston, Adjunct Professor, 1992 - 1996

Suffolk University, Adjunct Professor, 1994 - 1996

Boston University, Adjunct Professor, 1993 - 1994

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