Gail Suchman

Gail Suchman is a partner in the Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental Practice Group at Sheppard Mullin’s New York office. She has 30 years of experience in all facets of environmental and energy law and policy. She has been a long-term adjunct faculty member at Columbia Law School, Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and Columbia’s Earth Institute. Her practice includes environmental impact review, permitting and compliance, transactional due diligence, litigation, and legislative matters. She works closely with real estate and industrial developers on traditional environmental and land use matters, as well as climate change laws and regulations, community outreach and environmental justice, and green design and sustainability, and advises on socially responsible investment.  Ms. Suchman began her legal career as an enforcement attorney at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region V, in Chicago. She spent over ten years as an assistant attorney general in the Environmental Protection Bureau at the New York State Attorney General’s office and served for three years as regional director for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. As senior environmental counsel for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Ms. Suchman represented low-income communities and communities of color in litigation and legislative matters involving solid waste management, energy, brownfields, and environmental justice.  She was a decade-long member of former Mayor Bloomberg’s Energy Policy Task Force, a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a Senior Specialist designated by the Fulbright Scholarship Board/Council for International Exchange of Scholars.  Ms. Suchman is active in the City, State and American Bar Associations.