The environmental work, law, and non law, at Stuart’s eponymous law firm, Stuart D. Kaplow, P.A. is focused on creating value for enterprises in a broad range of asset classes, with resilient business solutions like green building.
We assist businesses in mitigating risk and maximizing opportunity.
Make no mistake, we can assist organizations that believe in ensuring a future that is inclusive, net zero, and nature positive – and monetizing it all for those clients. But we are rarely heard to utter the cause célèbres, decarbonize. Rather, we advocate “recarbon” recognizing that humans are carbon based life forms. The distinction is much more than mere nomenclature; it is perspective.
Our central thesis is that the world is changing. Today, much of the law firm’s work is assisting businesses in navigating changing environmental currents domestically and worldwide.
We take pride in understanding the edge cases and tail risks that others overlook, and that matter most when projects deviate from expectations
The firm offers science based advice and legal counsel for every environmental process and structure within an organization, from assisting public companies with transactional due diligence and positioning energy from grid to battery storage to working with real estate developers greening their existing portfolio whether the result of new laws, customer sentiment or corporate commitment including to achieve LEED or Green Globes certification or be IgCC compliant or earn an Energy Star Portfolio Manager score, and more. The attorneys provide comprehensive environmental and unique sustainable legal and non law solutions critical to businesses from conducting environmental site assessments to calculating greenhouse gas emissions and drafting climate change disclosures and sustainability reports mandated by government to negotiating renewable energy projects as well as assisting with matters of government relations and when necessary, providing legal counsel in defense of enforcement actions and in litigating CERCLA contribution actions.
Stuart Kaplow, the firm’s principal, assembles teams of experienced attorneys, elite scientists, top of their field environmental specialists, talented engineers, and marketing gurus, on a project basis, to leverage the local knowledge and nationally recognized technical ability necessary to ensure that client objectives are swiftly and successfully realized.
For more than three decades, the firm has counseled clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies and other publicly traded enterprises to closely held businesses and local real estate developers, providing strategic advice on some of the most challenging environmental, sustainability, and resilience issues. In addition to representing his own clients, Stuart Kaplow is frequently retained by other law firms and their clients as environmental counsel and, when appropriate, serves as an expert witness.
Based in central Maryland, the law firm assists clients across the country, and increasingly internationally, working with their in house and local counsel or often through ajhon Sustainable Systems Integrator, an independent non law environmental consulting business affiliate of this law firm. And while our proprietary environmental entrepreneurship business thrives, we put our expertise and experience to work for our clients.
The scope and breadth of the law firm’s experience in environmental and resiliency law can be gleaned from the more than 1,000 articles authored by Stuart Kaplow, many of which appear as posts on this blog.
