Robert Mellinger

Senior Associate

 

 

 

 

Practice Areas:

Environmental Law (Contamination and Compliance, Regulatory, and Transactional)
Environmental Litigation
Local Government Law

Robert Mellinger joined Maraziti Falcon in 2022 and focuses his work on counseling public and private clients regarding environmental matters, including environmental litigation, site remediation, environmental concerns in real-estate transactions, redevelopment, and local government and utilities law.

Prior to joining the firm, Robert externed for the Honorable Ann Aiken, United States District Judge for the District of Oregon. As an intern with Law Offices of Charles M. Tebbutt and Our Children’s Trust, he worked on public interest environmental and climate change litigation, including actions against concentrated animal feeding operations for groundwater contamination and state, federal, and international youth climate lawsuits. He also interned with Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts’ Pro Bono Program advising Oregon land trusts.

He attended University of Oregon School of Law where he received a certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. There, he was research assistant to Professor Mary Wood, Bowerman Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center’s Global Environmental Democracy Project, and co-director of the world’s largest Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. Prior to law school he had a career in land and forest management and co-founded the non-profit Maxwelton Creek Alliance.

BAR ADMISSION

  • State of New Jersey, 2022

EDUCATION

  • J.D. and Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law, University of Oregon School of Law, 2021 
  • B.A. Vassar College, 2009

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Member, Justice Stewart Pollock Inns of Court
  • Member, Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law Section
  • American Bar Association Member, Young Lawyers Division
  • American Bar Association Member
  • Environmental law Section
  • New Jersey State Bar Association Member, Young Lawyers Division
  • New Jersey State Bar Association

      PUBLICATIONS

      • “Buyers Beware: Piercing the Corporate Veil in the Environmental Context”, co-authored with Joanne Vos, Esq., published in The Middlesex Advocate, Middlesex County Bar Association Newsletter -Volume 37, Number 1 – September 2022; and also published in New Jersey Defense, New Jersey Defense Association Magazine/Fall 2022, September 2022.

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      240 Cedar Knolls Road,
      Suite 301
      Cedar Knolls, New Jersey 07927

      Phone

      973-912-9008

      Fax

      973-912-9007

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