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Jonathan H. Roth, Esq. |
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New Jersey Environmental Law
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Jonathan H. Roth, Esq. |
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New Jersey Environmental Law
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Welcome to the Environmental Law Practice of Jonathan Roth. We are proud of our record of providng quality NJDEP environmental legal services for over 15 years. Insurance recovery matters, in which we concentrate our practice, are done on a contingency basis, meaning that you will only have to pay a fee if you recover money from your carrier. Most firms charge fees for this service, we don't. We also assist our clients with all NJDEP issues including oil tanks, litigation to recover cleanup costs, insurance recovery, permits, Spill Act Matters, Oil tank law, ISRA, penalties, etc.
Our environmental practice is built on a dedication to providing cost-effective solutions to meeting our clients' needs by providing personal service with a focus on achieving results. For a discussion of one of our most valuable services, recovery of insurance to cover the costs of cleaning up your property see our services.
Typically, if we are representing a client with regard to an environmental matter, we are very concerned that regulatory requirements and deadlines be met in order to avoid punitive measures by the NJDEP in the form of penalties. In some cases, however, we are not retained until a client has already received a penalty notice from the State. If that is the case, we are careful to abide by hearing request deadlines and appeal deadlines, along with negotiating zealously on our client’s behalf. In this manner we have achieved a great deal of success for clients in terms of helping them to avoid penalties as well as achieving success in negotiating down the amount of penalties which have already been assessed.
In some rare cases, we have been retained to assist clients who are facing criminal charges as a result of their alleged deliberate actions or gross neglect in managing their operations in an environmentally sound manner. In one such case, we convinced the authorities not to pursue a criminal complaint based upon our detailed plan to manage the situation and resolve the concerns of the investigators and prosecutors in an emergent fashion. In another case, charges had already been brought by the Attorney General’s Environmental Crimes Unit and we were able to negotiate them down to a much lesser charge which allowed the client to pay a penalty and not face jail time which alleviated his greatest concern.
