Environmental Attorney
CurrentPamela H. Schaefer is a shareholder with the firm's Litigation, Environmental and Real Estate Practices. Pam's clients include small business owners, such as gas station owners and dry cleaners, municipalities and private and publicly held corporations.She has defended businesses and municipalities in actions brought by both the WDNR and U.S. EPA concerning alleged permit violations and have worked with clients to remediate and redevelop Brownfields sites. She utilized the umpire process outlined in Wis. Stats. Section 292.35 to fund the clean-up of a large municipal landfill.She is also highly experienced in the litigation of land use disputes, including cost recovery and contribution claims arising from environmental site remediation. In working with her clients, Pam focuses on strategies for cost management and creative use of land assets. Pam draws on more than 20 years of experience, specializing in environmental problem solving. As government and private business owners step up efforts to seek more "green" alternatives to existing energy resources and technology, Pam finds legal means to maximize tax incentives & financial & environmentally friendly solutions for her clients.Pam is a regular speaker for the National Business Institute on topics ranging from Wetlands to Environmental Sustainability. She also teaches the environmental litigation section of the FET annual CCHM course.Representing a municipality in the State Umpire Process (Wisconsin Statutes section 292.35), enabling a municipality to recover remedial costs for cleaning up a contaminated landfill and using the funds to redevelop the site into a public park; resulting in an increase in private development in the surrounding area
