Conservation Tools

Experts with some references:

Michael Angelo Maccagnan ♦
Angelo & Angelo, LLC
Allison Park, Pennsylvania
Services provided: Attorney Michael Angelo Maccagnan practices in the areas of real estate (including Conservation Easements and Clean and Green programs), zoning and land use, natural gas/oil contracts, environmental issues, estates and trusts (including estate and trust litigation), business law and tax issues.

George Asimos $
Saul Ewing LLP
Harrisburg, PA
Services provided: Asimos's real estate and land use practice spans more than 20 years. His practice includes advising land owners and nonprofit land trusts on the donation of conservation easements and related real estate planning. He has drafted, or advised landowners on, more than 200 conservation easement donations protecting more than 40,000 acres of land in more than 10 states.

Richard Filippi
Richard E. Filippi & Associates, P.C
Erie, PA
Services provided: attorney

Debra Wolf Goldstein
Conservation Matters, LLC
Philadelphia, PA
Services provided: Legal and policy consulting with specialization in land conservation.

H. Amos Goodall
Goodall & Yurchak, P.C.
State College, PA
Services provided:

Peter Nelson ♦
Grim, Biehn & Thatcher
Perkasie, Pennsylvania
Services provided: Legal services concerning: negotiation, drafting, execution, recordation, and enforcement of conservation easements; general land use issues, including zoning, subdivision, land development, stormwater management, and natural resource protection; ordinance and regulation drafting; representation before municipalites, zoning hearing boards, Commonwealth agencies, and Federal agencies; litigation and enforcement; boundary disputes and other real estate litigation; general legal representation.

Patricia L. Pregmon $
Pregmon Law Offices
Blue Bell, PA
Services provided: Real estate transactions and real estate finance. Few firms boast more experience and expertise in conservation and historic preservation law than Pregmon Law Offices.

Steven J. Schiffman $ ♦
Serratelli, Schiffman, Brown & Calhoon, P.C.
Harrisburg, PA
Services provided: Steven J. Schiffman acts as counsel to both non-profit and for-profit corporations. He is currently outside general counsel to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. He is the managing member of Serratelli, Schiffman, Brown & Calhoon, P.C. Mr. Schiffman practices residential and commercial real estate law, tax law, non-profit corporations, business law, including litigation in state, federal courts and administrative agencies. He is a frequent lecturer to professional groups as well as local and statewide organizations on matters such as estate planning and non-profit corporation law.

John Walliser
Pittsburgh, PA
Services provided: attorney

Experts with no references:

Dave Brown
Kreder Brooks Hailstone, LLP
Scranton, PA
Services provided: attorney

Terry Clemons, Esq.
Clemons Richter & Reiss PC
Doylestown, PA
Services provided: Terry counts among his municipal clients Wrightstown Township, Milford Township, and Springfield Township. He is also Special Counsel to Solebury Township, and Lower Saucon Township regarding open space matters. He also represents private property owners concerning preservation matters, including the sale of conservation easements to Bucks County and other municipal entities as well as securing charitable deductions for contributions of open space interests in real estate. In addition to the individual municipalities Terry represents, he is counsel to the Bucks County Association of Township Officials.

Fronefield Crawford
West Chester, PA
Services provided: Legal services related to Land Use and Zoning, Real Estate, Environmental, Government Liability & Civil Rights Defense

George Elser, Esq.
George H. Elser Law Firm
Wayne, PA
Services provided: George Elser represents individuals, families, small businesses and non-profit organizations. Land Conservation – I represent people who want to preserve their land by using conservation easements, agricultural easements, or by selling to a conservation buyer. I also represent people who want to purchase land that is already preserved or they wish to preserve. Real Estate - I represent clients as they buy and sell residential and commercial real estate. In addition, I work with landlords and tenants handling commercial and residential leases.

Duncan Greene ♦
GordonDerr LLP
Seattle, WA
Services provided: Real estate, land use, and environmental law, including extensive experience with conservation easements, water rights, transfer of development rights, and other conservation transactions.

William Higgs
William L Higgs Law Offices
Mt. Top, PA
Services provided: attorney

Lauren Pregmon Tetreault
Blue Bell, PA
Services provided: Real estate transactions and real estate finance. Few firms boast more experience and expertise in conservation and historic preservation law than Pregmon Law Offices.

Jonathan Reiss, Esq.
Grim, Biehn & Thatcher
Services provided: Born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and raised in Lake Placid, NY, Jonathan has provided legal services in Pennsylvania and New York since 1983. The majority of Jonathan’s practice is focused on representing local governments, municipal authorities, planning commissions, and zoning hearing boards in Bucks County and throughout southeastern Pennsylvania. Jonathan also practices in all areas of real estate law such as sales, acquisitions, community and condominium associations, leases, land preservation, and real estate litigation. Jonathan is able to recommend a course of action to achieve his clients’ objectives in the most efficient manner.

Sally Rutherford
Rutherford & Rutherford
Honesdale, PA
Services provided: attorney

John (Duke) Schneider
Weinstein, Schneider, Kannebecker & Lokuta
Milford, PA
Services provided: attorney

Charles Vogt
East Stroudsburg, PA
Services provided: attorney

Anthony (Tony) Waldron
Hawley, PA
Services provided: Real Estate