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Jeff Roelofs has been practicing law since 1993, with a specialty in environmental and land use law. He counsels and advocates for clients in a wide range of matters including permitting, regulatory compliance, enforcement defense, real estate and business transactions, and litigation. Jeff appears regularly before state and federal environmental agencies and regulators and has appeared before more than 70 local boards and commissions. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Oregon.
Jeff currently represents a broad range of clients, from individual homeowners confronted with wetlands issues to one of Massachusetts' largest residential and commercial developers in permitting, litigation, wetlands, MEPA proceedings, and other land use and environmental matters involving a variety of project types. Other representative matters include defense and prosecution of private cost recovery and contribution actions, regulatory counseling in the context of contaminated properties, administrative and judicial wetlands appeals, environmental due diligence in connection with real estate and corporate transactions, and compliance, permitting and enforcement-related counseling and advocacy under a variety of federal, state and local environmental and land use laws.
Jeff was recently appointed co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Wetlands, Waterways and Water Quality Committee. He is also a member of the Boston Bar Association's Environmental Section Steering Committee, the Newburyport Planning Board, the Licensed Site Professional Association, and the North East Builder's Association of Massachusetts.
Prior to opening his own practice in 2007, Law Offices of Jeffrey L. Roelofs, P.C., Jeff worked seven years with Anderson & Kreiger LLP (2000-2007), where he joined the firm as a partner in 2005, and six years with Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP's environmental department (1994-2000). Jeff is a graduate of Colgate University, where he received his undergraduate degree in Economics cum laude , and Cornell Law School, where he received his law degree cum laude and was Articles Editor for the Cornell International Law Journal.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Don't Be Fooled: Chapter 21J, §3 Does Not Protect LSP's, LSPA News, Vol. 12, No. 5 (July/August 2005).
Wetlands Regulation in Massachusetts, Presentation to Boston College Environmental Law Seminar (2005 and 2007).
Chapter 14, “Environmental Matters,” Lease Drafting in Massachusetts (MCLE Manual, 2001 Revised Edition) (updated chapter).
“Bestfoods” - A Return to Common Sense, 13 Toxics Law Reporter 127 (BNA, June 24, 1998) (co-authored with Robert S. Sanoff).
CERCLA Reauthorization, 108 Oregon Insider 1 (July 15, 1994).
United States-Canada Air Quality Agreement: A Framework for Addressing Transboundary Air Pollution Problems, 26 Cornell I.L.J. 421 (Spring 1993).
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