Advocating on the East End

Eric Bregman concentrates his practice on land use, zoning, real estate, condemnation, environmental and commercial law and related litigation. He also handles transactional real estate, planning and variance matters.

He has served as East Hampton Town Attorney (and Special Assistant District Attorney) and as Special Counsel, Town of Southampton, for coastal erosion litigation and legislative drafting matters. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bregman was Partner and Of Counsel at Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. (New York City) and was a Law Clerk to Marvin Frankel, United States District Court, S.D.N.Y. Mr. Bregman has been an Adjunct Professor of Law in Advanced Civil Procedure and Environmental Litigation at Cardozo Law School. He also taught Environmental Litigation at Pace Law School.

He lectures for the American Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the New York State Bar Association, and the New York Land Institute. Mr. Bregman formerly chaired the Environmental Law Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association. He is a former member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Committees on Environmental Law, Federal Legislation, Federal Courts, State Legislation and Professional Ethics and served on the Association’s Council on Judicial Administration.

Mr. Bregman has an AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating.

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