Environmental Attorney Suzanne Avena Elected to Board of Directors Of Nassau County Bar Association

Aug. 6, 2009 - PRLog -- Suzanne Avena, an environmental attorney with the law firm of Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C. (GWT), has been elected to a three-year term to the Board of Directors of the Nassau County Bar Association (NCBA), the largest suburban bar association in the nation.  “As a member of the Board of Directors, Ms. Avena will play a fundamental role in leading the 6,000 member bar association as the foremost source for legal information and services for the legal profession and the various local communities in Nassau County,” noted NCBA president Emily F. Franchina.

Ms. Avena is currently Chair of the Environmental Practice Group at GWT.  She counsels in all matters of environmental law, including conducting compliance and due diligence audits, negotiating with federal and state agencies regarding violations and representing clients in environmental litigation.  She has particular expertise in structuring contaminated (Brownfield) commercial property transactions.  Ms. Avena represents municipalities, manufacturers, real estate buyers, sellers, developers and management firms, lenders, investors, hospitals, universities, environmental contractors and consultants, and other business owners.

Ms. Avena received her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and her Juris Doctor degree from St. John’s University School of Law.  She lectures and writes frequently on environmental topics.  She is Past-Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the NCBA, was Alumni of the Month for St. John’s University School of Law in May 2009, and was featured in “Long Island Women in Real Estate” in March 2008 by the New York Real Estate Journal.  She was also featured in “Ones to Watch” in January 2008 by Long Island Business News.

Founded in 1899, the Nassau County Bar Association (NCBA), with a membership of nearly 6,000 private and public attorneys, judges, legal educators and law students, is the largest suburban bar association in the nation.  The NCBA demonstrates its commitment to the community by offering a variety of services for the public, including lawyer referral services, mortgage foreclosure and senior citizen clinics, judicial screening, public education programs and support for the Volunteer Lawyers Project, which provides much-needed free legal services for the indigent of Nassau County.  For more information, call 516 747-4070, email info@nassaubar.org or visit www.nassaubar.org.

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Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C founded in 1980, maintains one of the most active health care practices in the Northeast, while also providing services to many non-health-related clients. Always at the forefront of Federal and State developments, GWT meets a full range of needs including EPA/environmental issues, strategic planning, complex transactions, exempt and taxable financing, white collar defense, litigation, fraud and abuse, estate planning, elder law, tax issues, real estate, licensing, capital formation, health information technology, privacy & security and bankruptcy. GWT maintains offices in Great Neck, NY; Hackensack, NJ; and Stamford, CT. For more information, visit www.gwtlaw.com.