Firm Profile

In this era of regulatory reform, clients need environmental lawyers who can make effective use of the new tools and approaches that are now available under recently revamped state and federal environmental laws.

Schnapf Environmental Law Offices offers clients access to one of the most experienced environmental lawyers in the New York metropolitan area. We are able provide clients with practical and cost-effective solutions to their environmental problems at affordable legal rates.

We view ourselves as facilitators who can eliminate obstacles that prevent clients from achieving their business objectives. Our  mission is to provide clients with practical and common sense approaches that will minimize their environmental liabilities while maximizing their business opportunities.

We frequently assist law firms that do not have environmental law expertise with environmental issues associated with transactions as well as provide litigation support and expert testimony for complex environmental litigation.

Founder Profile

The Schnapf Environmental Law Center was founded by Lawrence P. Schnapf who has over 25 years of national environmental experience with Fortune 500 corporations and a number of major New York-based law firms.  He is also an adjunct professor of environmental law at New York Law School and a member of the faculty of the Center for Real Estate Studies at New York Law School.

Larry has counseled corporate and industrial clients on compliance with the regulatory requirements of federal and state environmental laws such as RCRA,  CWA, CAA and their state counterparts, has represented clients in federal and state environmental litigation, enforcement matters, administrative proceedings and CERCLA private cost recovery actions, and has assisted clients in developing corporate environmental compliance procedures.

Larry has extensive experience performing environmental due diligence and negotiating environmental issues associated with corporate acquisitions, commercial lending and financing, workouts and bankruptcy, real estate transactions and brownfield redevelopment.  

He is chair of the Environmental, Energy and Resources Committee of the Business Law Section of the ABA, co-chairs both the the NYSBA Brownfield Task Force and the NYSBA Hazardous Site Remediation Committee.

Larry is widely published and is the author of "Environmental Liability:  
"Managing Environmental Liability" published by Juris Publishing, co-author of New Jersey Enviromental Law which is also published by Juris and a contributing author to the "Brownfield Law and Practice" and "Environmental Law and Practice" published by Lexis..