Areas of Practice:

Environmental
Land Use
Litigation

Education:

Columbia Law School, 1981 J.D.
with honors

University of Pennsylvania, 1977 B.A.
cum laude

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Arthur P. Kreiger

Email: akreiger@andersonkreiger.com
Phone: 617-621-6540
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Arthur P. Kreiger, Partner

A co-founder of the firm, Art Kreiger has more than 25 years of experience as an advocate, counselor, litigator and mediator.  Art is a tenacious litigator, creative problem solver and insightful counselor who delivers personal attention and demonstrated results.  His experience includes:

   
• Representing public and private clients in federal and state superfund litigation, mediation and negotiations;     
• Recovering millions of dollars of response costs and damages from parties responsible for oil and hazardous material contamination, and successfully defending many clients against such claims;   
• Obtaining tens of millions of dollars in insurance funds for cleanups and damages in contamination cases;   
• Advising clients and drafting documents on real estate transactions involving environmental issues, including service stations, factories and contaminated rural sites;   
• Defending industrial and commercial clients in DEP enforcement proceedings;   
• Representing all sides - local boards of health, operators and residents - in solid waste facility proceedings;   
• Litigating on all sides of high stakes zoning disputes involving many different types of projects, including big box retail, commercial projects, religious and educational institutions, agricultural uses, federal and state detention facilities, industrial projects, subdivisions and affordable housing;    
• Testifying in state and federal court as an expert witness in contamination and environmental insurance cases;    
• Serving as a court-appointed Master in a municipal sewerage dispute, a Hearing Officer in local landfill site assignment hearings, and a Hearing Officer in an affordable housing appeal at the Housing Appeals Committee;   
• Resolving dozens of environmental and land use disputes as a certified mediator with more than 15 years of experience;    
• Serving as Co-Chairman of the Boston Bar Association's Environmental Law Section and a member of the Section's Steering Committee for 15 years;   
• Teaching advanced environmental law as an adjunct professor;   
• Serving as a member of the Belmont Zoning Board of Appeals.