Warren K. Rich

Warren Rich, now retired, is the Firm's founding Partner, who formed the Firm with Tim Henderson in 1993. Warren had over fifty years of experience in drafting, implementing, counseling and litigating environmental and land use issues. Mr. Rich was Assistant Attorney General and Counsel to the Secretary for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources from 1970 to 1978, during which time he authored many of Maryland's original environmental regulatory programs. Mr. Rich had extensive experience in negotiating resolutions and settlements to complex issues involving conflicts between Federal/state/municipalities and private interests. Mr. Rich received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1964 and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. He is admitted to practice in the states of Maryland and New York, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the Federal D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Partner (Retired)

• State of Maryland, Assistant Attorney General, 1970 - 1977

• Instructor, Urban Planning, University of Maryland, 1978 - 1979

• New York, 1965
• Maryland, 1967
• U.S. District Court District of Maryland, 1967
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 1967
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1967
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1967

• American Bar Association, Environmental and Natural Resources Sections (Member)
• Maryland State Bar Association (Member)