BUFFALO, NEW YORK – Lippes Mathias is pleased to announce that Amy L. Reichhart, partner and leader of the firm’s brownfield & superfund cleanup and redevelopment practice team, is one of 39 individuals to be honored with a Legal Excellence Award by the Rochester Business Journal. The Legal Excellence Awards were started by The Daily Record and Rochester Business Journal to pay tribute to all the ways legal professionals work to make the Greater Rochester community stronger.

Reichhart, who was honored in the Leaders in Law category, focuses her practice on matters involving site investigation and remediation, brownfields redevelopment, environmental regulatory and enforcement matters, and all phases of litigation. She has extensive experience overseeing the cleanup of contaminated properties from investigation, through remediation, to site closure, and is fully versed in the regulatory and technical aspects of a complex site. Reichhart advises potentially responsible parties (PRPs), real estate developers and landowners in developing strategies and managing the investigation and redevelopment of contaminated properties and addressing complex environmental compliance issues. She also has extensive experience in challenging administrative determinations and defending enforcement actions before New York state agencies.

Lippes Mathias is a full-service law firm with nearly 175 attorneys serving clients regionally, nationally, and internationally. With offices in Buffalo, Clarence, Albany, Long Island, New York, Rochester and Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Greater Toronto Area; Chicago, Ill.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Cleveland, Ohio; San Antonio, Texas; Oklahoma City, Okla. and Washington, D.C., the firm represents publicly and privately-owned companies, private equity and venture capital firms, real estate developers, financial institutions, municipalities, governmental entities, and individuals.