Lee represents businesses, individuals and municipalities in all areas of environmental and regulatory law. His experience includes trial and appellate work in both civil and criminal environmental matters, toxic torts, representation before administrative agencies and Superfund litigation.

In addition to his litigation practice, Lee advises clients on various environmental matters including counseling them on environmental compliance issues, the redevelopment of contaminated properties (“brownfields”) to productive use, assisting with facility audits, advising companies on the ramifications associated with the acquisition or divestiture of assets, regulatory interpretation and conducting facility audits.

Lee also represents parties in proceedings before the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control and the Connecticut Siting Council. His experience includes representing utility companies, municipalities, lenders and private power producers in connection with the siting of facilities, transmission lines and pipelines; representing interested parties in connection with cable franchise renewals; financing power projects and representing wireless carriers in the siting of telecommunications facilities.

Prior to joining Pullman & Comley, LLC, Lee served as in-house counsel at The Hartford, where he defended The Hartford in declaratory judgment actions and oversaw defense attorneys in underlying toxic tort litigation.

Representative Experience

Defended Fortune 500 corporations, water companies and POTWs against criminal charges of violations of the Clean Water Act and violations of other federal and state environmental statutes
Represented several utility companies in connection with their acquisition of natural gas pipelines and electric generation assets
Advised companies on corporate disclosure requirements under environmental laws
Represented Fortune 500 corporations and publicly-traded companies in defense of federal and state Superfund actions
Represented parties in connection with the acquisition of water rights for municipal drinking water
Represented parties before the DPUC in connection with Connecticut’s Energy Independence Act
Represented both lenders and borrowers in connection with financing of independent power projects
Represented real estate developers in connection with development and construction of commercial properties on brownfield sites
Represented a manufacturer before the U.S. Court of Appeals in a successful appeal of EPA sanctions
Defended toxic tort claims against an international manufacturer in matters in five different states
Represented power producers, municipalities and other interested parties before the Connecticut Siting Council
Redeveloped a contaminated mill into a productive office/light industrial complex
Defended a municipality in stigma and personal injury cases arising from contamination of drinking water wells and proximity to a landfill
Assisted utility and telecommunications clients in developing permitting and siting strategies for new and existing facilities
Represented a television network before the Connecticut DPUC in connection with carriage rights on various cable company franchises
Represented various shipping companies in connection with allegations of oil spills and other maritime accidents
Represented manufacturers in administrative hearings before the U.S. EPA and the Connecticut DEP

Professional Affiliations

American Bar Association - Litigation Section; Environment, Energy and Resources Section; vice chair, membership, Energy and Natural Resources Market Regulation Committee
Connecticut Bar Association - Executive Committee, Environmental Section; secretary, Public Utilities Section
Air & Waste Management Association - vice chair, Environmental Policies Division; board member, New England Section
Connecticut Business and Industry Association's Environmental Policies Council Steering Committee
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection's Remediation Standard Regulation (RSR) External Advisory Committee
Connecticut General Assembly's Brownfields Task Force
DEP's SIP Regulatory Advisory Committee
Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity - board of directors
National Association of Industrial & Office Properties - Connecticut & Suburban New York Chapter - chairman, Brownfields Subcommittee of the Public Affairs Committee
National Brownfield Association - executive board, Connecticut chapter

Community Involvement

Town of Windsor's Redevelopment Agency - secretary
Town of Windsor's Commission on Aging & Persons with Disabilities
University of Connecticut School of Law - adjunct professor

Honors & Awards

Listed in the International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers, 2004
Listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers to Businesses
Selected to the Connecticut Super Lawyers list in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the area of environmental
Named an MS Corporate Achiever of Greater Hartford by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2008
Recipient of the Hartford Business Journal's "40 Under Forty" Award, recognizing him as one of Hartford County's top "young leaders"