Michael B. Gerrard heads the New York City office of Arnold & Porter, where he represents corporations, municipalities, and other organizations in environmental litigation and transactional matters.
He was 2004-2005 Chair of the American Bar Association's Section on Environment, Energy and Resources. He is former Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and has practiced environmental law since 1979. Mr. Gerrard was also a member of the adjunct faculties of Columbia Law School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
He is General Editor of Matthew Bender's twelve-volume Environmental Law Practice Guide, which upon publication was selected as the "Best Law Book of the Year" by the Association of American Publishers. He is the General Editor of Matthew Bender's four-volume publication Brownfields Law and Practice, winner of the 1998 "Best Law Book of the Year" award. He is co-author of Matthew Bender's Environmental Impact Review in New York (with Daniel Ruzow and Philip Weinberg), author of Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting (MIT 1994), editor of Matthew Bender's monthly newsletter Environmental Law in New York, and since 1986, co-author of the monthly environmental law column in the New York Law Journal. His other books are The Law of Environmental Justice (ABA 1999) and Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (ABA 2007). Mr. Gerrard is also the former Chairman of the Executive Committee, and former Chair of the Committee of Land Use Planning and Zoning and of the Committee on Transportation, of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
He has served as Deputy Director of the Mayor's Transit Office in New York City and Special Counsel to the Chair of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority.