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Firm senior partner Gregor I. McGregor will deliver the keynote address at the Annual Environmental Conference (AEC) of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (MACC). This is to mark his retirement from the MACC Board of Directors after 50 years.

He also will present his popular annual Environmental Law Update workshop, while associate attorney Caroline E. Smith will present (with Brandon Faneuf, PWS) their workshop on ticketing under General Laws .c. 40, Section 21D. This is the enforcement tool known as Non-Criminal Dispositions.

Who: 800 individuals, including members of Conservation Commissions, municipal and state staff and officials, engineers and consultants, lawyers, non-profit organizations, and others will be in attendance at the AEC.

What: The AEC offers a full day of four tracks of workshops, lunch, coffee breaks, exhibit hall, student poster competition, book sale, business session, and lots of networking.

When: Saturday, March 1, 2025. 8:00 am - 4:30 pm.

Where: The College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center: 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610

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Speakers:

Gregor I. McGregor, Esq. is an environmental attorney and founder of the Boston law firm, McGregor Legere & Stevens PC. His court cases, including several for MACC as amicus curiae, have created numerous legal precedents in the environmental realm. He was president of MACC twice. In 2020, Greg received MACC’s Long-Time Environmental Service Award. This year, upon his retirement from the Board of Directors after 50 years, he is the keynoter.

Caroline E. Smith, Esq. is an environmental attorney of the Boston law firm, McGregor Legere & Stevens PC. She has experience in Massachusetts courts and before local and state agencies, boards, and commissions, helping clients with a range of environmental, land use, and real estate issues including zoning, subdivisions, state and local enforcement actions, wetlands permitting and appeals, Article 97, stormwater, and Chapter 91 Licenses. Ms. Smith is a member of the Medford Conservation Commission.

 

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Gregor I. McGregor, Esq.

GREGOR I. McGREGOR, Esq. is the founder and principal of New England’s oldest environmental law firm, McGregor Legere & Stevens PC., formed in 1975.

The firm handles all aspects of environmental law, land use, real estate, energy, and related litigation. Mr. McGregor enjoys Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating for attorneys (AV).

In over 50 years of legal practice, Mr. McGregor's court cases created precedents on Environmental Impact Statements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA), wetland and floodplain law under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, hazardous waste cleanup liability and cost-recovery under the Massachusetts Superfund, reduced taxes for land conservation transactions, Article 97 open space and parkland protection, Home Rule environmental ordinances and bylaws of cities and towns, court enforcement remedies, and the constitutional doctrine of Regulatory Takings.

Before 1975, Mr. McGregor was an Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts and the first chief of the Attorney General’s Division of Environmental Protection. In that capacity he advised and represented the Commonwealth during the formative years of Massachusetts environmental statutes, agencies, regulations, enforcement and cases in court.

Mr. McGregor is editor of the two-volume treatise on Massachusetts Environmental Law, published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE). He is co-chair of MCLE’s annual Environmental, Land Use, and Energy Law Conference and MCLE’s Real Estate and Environmental Law Curriculum Advisory Committee. He received from MCLE in 2013 its Scholar-Mentor Award recognizing his dedication to legal scholarship and leadership.

Mr. McGregor co-chairs the Environmental and Renewable Energy Law Section of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts (REBA) and serves as a member of the REBA Board of Directors. He is an active member of the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association (MMLA), which honored him for his career contributions and advocacy on the Home Rule Doctrine. At a National CLE Conference in Vail, CO, Mr. McGregor for many years co-chaired an annual seminar on Environmental Law, Land Use, Energy & Litigation for attorneys from across the United States.

The firm is a founding member of the Environmental Law Network (ELN), an alliance of specialty law firms, in the United States and abroad, sharing legal expertise and practical experience for the benefit of their clients.

Mr. McGregor is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.

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