Bridget L. Dorfman

Biography:

Bridget L. Dorfman has been an associate with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP since 2004. She focuses her practice on regulatory compliance matters and real estate development transactions. Bridget has represented industrial, commercial, and non-profit clients in complex matters, including the following:

• counseling regional and national residential developers regarding compliance with stormwater permits associated with earth disturbance activities;
• representing clients in transactions for the purchase and sale of businesses and real estate, including performing due diligence and drafting environmental provisions in agreements of sale, leases, and other real estate contracts;
• assisting clients to resolve agency enforcement actions alleging violations of waste management, storage tank, and other regulatory programs;
• representing clients in the resolution of Occupational Safety and Health Administration enforcement actions related to the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response ("HAZWOPER") standard, emergency action planning, bloodborne pathogens, electrical standards, lockout/tagout, and other issues;
• drafting and negotiating access agreements to enable the remediation of properties pursuant to state voluntary cleanup programs;
• advising clients regarding their rights and obligations with respect to state and federal threatened and endangered species on their properties; and
• counseling clients on federal and state wetlands permitting, enforcement, and mitigation issues.

Prior to earning her law degree, Bridget worked for two years as a research assistant in the Brownfields Program of the Northeast-Midwest Institute in Washington, DC. She has also worked as a summer intern for U.S. Representative Jon D. Fox, the Center for International Environmental Law, and the John Muir Project.

Bridget served as a summer associate with the firm in 2002. Also while studying at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she served as a senior editor of the Journal of Constitutional Law, where she authored "Permission to Pollute: The United States Military, Environmental Damage, and Citizens' Constitutional Claims," 6 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 604 (2004). She also served as co-chair of Penn Law School's Environmental Law Society, as a summer law clerk in the Oakland, California office of Earthjustice, and as an extern in the Region III office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Bridget has written on stormwater regulation, asbestos, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ("LEED") certification, and the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act. In the community, she serves on the Board of Directors of the John Bartram Association.

Education:

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2004
• Columbia University, B.A., cum laude, 1998

Memberships:

• Bar admissions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey
• Philadelphia Bar Association
• Society of Women Environmental Professionals of Greater Philadelphia