Practices
- Administrative Law
- Appellate Law
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy / Creditors' Rights
- Business
- Construction Contracts and Disputes
- Criminal Defense
- Employment Matters
- Environmental Law
- Estate Planning & Administration
- Family Law
- Insurance
- Litigation
- Maritime
- Municipal & Municipal Finance Law
- Personal Injury
- Real Estate
- Title Litigation
- Zoning & Land Use
Environmental Law
Extensive experience.
Environmental enforcement actions, development, and transactional planning require in-depth knowledge and cross-disciplinary experience with the law, the regulators, and the realities of the business world. Council Baradel’s environmental law group boasts significant experience assisting countless clients in a full range of environmental law matters, including:
- Wetlands
- Contaminated site remediation
- Property transactions
- Brownfields
- CERCLA
- Underground storage tanks
- Water and air pollution
- Solid waste disposal
- Riparian rights
- Critical Areas
- Acquaculture leasing
- Tree preservation issues
We handle regulatory permitting and contracting issues for businesses and municipalities that use toxic substances, treat wastewater, and seek solid waste disposal permits. We protect our client’s rights through negotiation, mediation, administrative agency proceedings, and litigation in State and federal courts.
Please send us an email and one of our attorneys will be in contact with you in a timely manner.
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- Six Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers
- Thirteen Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized by Maryland Super Lawyers 2023
- Fifteen Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized by Maryland Super Lawyers 2022
- Twelve Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized in What's Up? Magazine's "Leading Lawyers" 2021
- Anne Arundel County Property Tax Assessment Appeals (2021, 2022, 2023 Tax Cycle)
- Council Baradel Elects Lee Ann Adams and Elizabeth A. Pfenson as Partners
- N. Tucker Meneely Inducted as Fellow of the Maryland Bar Foundation
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- Ronald E. Council Marks 50 Years as an Annapolis Attorney
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- Mollie Walsh Beigel Joins Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Board of Directors
- Joseph F. Devlin Joins Board of Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County
- Six Council Baradel Attorneys Named 2016 Maryland Super Lawyers.
- Ten Council Baradel attorneys named 2015 Maryland Super Lawyers.
- Directors Stephen A. Oberg, Susan M. Wyckoff and Joseph F. Devlin inducted as Fellows into the Maryland Bar Foundation
- Five Council Baradel Attorneys Named as"Leading Lawyers" by What's Up? Annapolis Magazine
- Susan T. Ford Elected Vice-Chairman of the Board of Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts