Liana Feinn

Liana Feinn is an associate in the the areas of Pullman & Comley's Real Estate, Environmental, Energy, and Land Use and its Litigation departments. She focuses on regulatory compliance and appeals, ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal rules and regulations in a variety of sectors with primary focus on the environmental, energy, public health and safety, and land use. She routinely works with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the Connecticut Siting Council, the Department of Agriculture, and local planning, zoning, and wetlands commissions.

Liana regularly advises property owners and developers on environmental compliance when transferring contaminated properties, including compliance with the Connecticut Transfer Act, and the upcoming Release Based Cleanup Program in effect as of March 2026. She routinely drafts loan documents, lease, and sale agreements for commercial real estate transactions and represents private entities seeking state and federal environmental permits, including air, water, and hazardous waste regulatory approvals, as well as land use and zoning approvals from municipal boards and commissions. She represents those entities in appealing any denials of such permits as well.

Liana represents environmental contractors and petroleum companies when litigation disputes arise out of environmental compliance issues. Other litigation experience includes defending regulatory compliance violations and appeals of other local and state agency decisions.

Liana has experience in the public sector with state and federal Brownfield loan and grant programs, and provides assistance to municipalities in zoning, wetlands, and building code compliance enforcement.

Before joining Pullman, during law school, Liana worked as a summer intern in the Office of the Attorney General where she researched environmental case law and legislation. She was also a member of the Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court, served as trivia chair of the Energy & Environmental Law Society. Prior to law school, she worked as an associate chemist at a global healthcare technology leader where she performed chemical characterization analysis and wrote standard operating procedures.  

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Selected to the Connecticut Super Lawyers Rising Stars list in 2025

University of Connecticut School of Law Merit Scholarship

CALI Awards in Constitutional Law I and II

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