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Joel H. Sachs
Real Property Law Section
Joel H. Sachs of White Plains (Keane & Beane, PC) has been
elected chair of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar
Association.
Sachs received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and
earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He
earned an LL.M. from New York University Law School.
Sachs is a senior partner of Keane & Beane, PC and heads its
Environmental and Land Use Practice Group, representing private entities
and governmental agencies in a wide variety of environmental and land
use matters. Sachs previously clerked for a federal judge in the
Southern District of New York and served as an Assistant Attorney
General for the State of New York and Deputy Chief of its Environmental
Protection Bureau for five years.
A past member of the State Bar’s House of Delegates, Sachs also
is the past chair of the Environmental Law Section, making him one of a
few attorneys to have chaired two sections. He is a member of the
Municipal Law Section and the Committee on Continuing Legal Education.
He is a past member of the Task Force on Eminent Domain
Sachs is a past president of the White Plains Bar Association and the
Westchester County Legal Aid Society. Sachs also serves as an adjunct
professor at Pace University School of Law where he has taught courses
on state and municipal environmental law, land use and construction
law.
Sachs was recently named the Best Environmental Attorney in
Westchester County by Westchester Magazine and as one of the best
environmental attorneys in the New York Metropolitan area by The New
York Times Magazine in 2007 and 2008 and by New York Magazine the past
four years. In addition, he is listed in the National
Publication, Best Lawyers in America, 2008-2009.
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