Lawrence Gallina will be working on environmental litigation, as well as land use matters including ELURs. His litigation experience includes in court hearings, arbitrations, and meditations.
His professional background includes 13 years of experience as a targeting analyst and branch chief for the Central Intelligence Agency. He regularly produced a range of intelligence products that were read by two Presidents, as well as members of Congress, and were widely disseminated to the US Military and law enforcement agencies.
Mr. Gallina is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and the New Haven County Bar Association.
Mr. Gallina received his B.A. in Business Administration/Pre-Law from Michigan State University, his M.B.A. from Wayne State University, and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.
Eric Jacobi joined the firm after practicing for over a decade at two prominent international law firms. He focuses on environmental, antitrust, political law and compliance, and complex commercial litigation. Eric has substantial experience advising clients on all matters of business start-ups and antitrust law, including price fixing, monopolization, merger clearances, and second requests. In addition, he advises clients on environmental liability and has held leadership roles on several high-profile matters including a multinational energy company’s landmark victory in an environmental and RICO litigation in the Southern District of New York.
Eric advises a wide range of individuals and companies, including those in the technology, energy, political consulting, and pharmaceutical sectors. He has served as the lead attorney on numerous Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) cases and first chaired a successful appeal in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Eric is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C.
Mr. Jacobi, the firm’s lead environmental attorney, began practicing with the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 1976. In his capacity as Enforcement Division counsel in both the Water and Hazardous Waste Sections, Mr. Jacobi practiced for EPA through 1979. At that time, he became senior environmental attorney for Stauffer Chemical Company where he was responsible for its major environmental matters including several nationally known Superfund cases. Mr. Jacobi remained with the company until 1987 when he organized the existing firm.
Mr. Jacobi graduated from Hofstra University, magna cum laude, in 1972 before attending Hofstra Law School from which he graduated in 1975. During his tenure with Stauffer Chemical Company, he continued his educational pursuits and in 1984 obtained his MBA from Sacred Heart University. He is the former chairman of the Milford Inland Wetlands Agency and a former elected member of the Milford Board of Aldermen. He is a past Chairman of both the Environmental Committee of the Corporate Bar Association and the New Haven County Bar Association – Environmental Committee. Mr. Jacobi also served on the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Agency’s Committee to enact Transfer Act Legislation and the DEEP Cleanup Standards Development Task Force.
Mr. Jacobi has lectured before the International Research Institute on environmental insurance coverage and before numerous bar association groups on environmental issues ranging from managing CERCLA multi-party cases to Transfer Act Compliance in Complex Real Estate Transactions. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Who’s Who Among Outstanding Americans. He has an AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.© Mr. Jacobi has also authored feature articles published in the Connecticut Bar Journal (Trustee Liability) and Connecticut’s Environment Magazine (Transfer Act Liability).
