Kuzma, Sheryl Hoefler

Barry J. Trilling is the partner who leads the Climate Change and Sustainable Development group at Wiggin and Dana LLP. He is also a member of the Real Estate, Environmental, and Energy Department and both the Clean Tech and Insurance practice groups. Clients call on Mr. Trilling to assist on a wide variety of matters with regard to the environment and "green" business and real estate issues. These include business and real estate transactions, due diligence investigations, site remediation, brownfields development, wetlands, insurance transactions and claims, regulatory compliance counseling, mold and asbestos issues, governmental relations, legislation, rule making, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) matters, and both administrative and judicial litigation. Mr. Trilling's cross-disciplinary experience includes the inter-action of environmental law with affordable housing, borrowing and lending, business formation, corporate disclosure, estates and trusts, industrial operations, innovative technology, insurance, land use, officer/director liability, and tax incentive policy

Mr. Trilling has practiced law since 1971 and has dealt with legal issues from the perspectives of industry, government, and the environmental interest community. As an attorney for the United States Justice Department he supervised the federal government's team of lawyers in the litigation concerning cleanup of the infamous "Love Canal" hazardous waste site in Western New York State. As well as representing business entities, Mr. Trilling has also provided legal services for environmental groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Audubon Society.

Mr. Trilling is listed in Chambers USA as one of the leading Environmental lawyers in Connecticut (for more information about the standards for inclusion in Chambers USA, please click here).

He received his B.A. from the honors program in English at U.C.L.A., his J.D. from Boalt Hall, the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, and also did post law-school study at the Anderson School of Management at U.C.L.A.