Mark A. Chertok
Advisory Board
Mark Chertok is a partner in Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C., of New York City, which specializes in environmental law and litigation. His experience spans a broad spectrum of substantive areas, including hazardous substances, wetlands and water quality, coastal zone management, land use and zoning, solid waste, air quality and historic preservation. His practice focuses on environmental impact reviews under the State Environmental Quality Review Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, major transportation infrastructure projects, waterfront permitting, CERCLA and state superfund sites, and Brownfield redevelopment. His clients have included interstate, state, regional and local governmental bodies, private industrial, commercial and financial entities, and national and regional environmental and civic organizations. Mr. Chertok has taught environmental litigation at Cardozo Law School and the Pace University School of Law, and developmental law at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Historic Preservation. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association, Environmental Law Section. Mr. Chertok is a contributing author in several books and has numerous publications. He has served on the faculty of numerous institutions, including the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, the National Judicial College and the Environmental Law Institute. He earned his J.D. in 1970 from Harvard Law School and his B.A. in 1967 from the State University of New York at Buffalo.