Cornell University – B.A. 1963
University of Pennsylvania – LL.B. 1966
New York University – LL.M. 1970

Joel H. Sachs represents private entities and governmental agencies in a wide variety of environmental and land use matters.  Mr. Sachs also serves as an adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law where he has taught courses on state and municipal environmental law, land use and construction law.

Mr. Sachs previously clerked for a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and served as an Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York and Deputy chief of its Environmental Protection Bureau for five years.  Mr. Sachs also served as the former Town Attorney of the Town of Greenburgh, the largest Town in Westchester County.  He presently serves as Special Land Use and Environmental Counsel to municipalities in Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange and Ulster Counties.

Mr. Sachs is a frequent speaker before bar association groups on various environmental and land use topics.  In the past, he has served as Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, President of the White Plains Bar Association and the Westchester County Legal Aid Society and a Representative to the Environmental Law Section, House of Delegates of the New York State Bar Association.  Mr. Sachs is an officer and Chair of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.

Mr. Sachs is admitted to practice in Florida and New York and before the United States Supreme Court.

New York State and Westchester County Bar Associations; Federal Bar Council; Construction Industry Panel of the American Arbitration Association; Former Chairman, Committee on Environmental Protection, National Institute of Municipal Law Officers.