Eric L. Gordon

Construction Law
Environmental Law
Labor Relations & Employment Law
Land Development & Zoning
Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution
Municipal Law
Utility Law, Rate Making and Analysis
Insurance Defense and Civil Rights

Eric Gordon represents and advises private clients and municipal entities and legislative and administrative boards throughout the greater Hudson Valley on a wide variety of land use, zoning, municipal, and labor and employment matters. Mr. Gordon has prepared, reviewed and presented site plan, special use permit, variance and other real estate development related applications both to, and on behalf of, municipal boards throughout Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess Counties. He also advises private and municipal clients with respect to land use, employment law and general municipal matters. He has prosecuted, opposed and argued Article 78 proceedings in New York State and federal trial and appellate courts and represents businesses, developers, individuals, property managers and public entities before administrative agencies and in numerous matters in state and federal courts, both defending and prosecuting litigations.  Mr. Gordon also has drafted, reviewed and processed utility rate applications before the New York State Public Service Commission and local regulatory entities with respect to sewer and water utility rates and litigated cases in federal and state court relating to utility rate making.

Mr. Gordon has successfully defended corporations and municipalities in discrimination and retaliation claims brought under Federal Civil Rights statutes (e.g., 42 U.S.C. 1983, Title VII and Title IX) and represented both municipalities and private clients seeking to enforce rights under the New York State Eminent Domain Procedure Law.

Mr. Gordon joined Keane & Beane, P.C. in 1999 after previously practicing law in San Diego, California.  After graduating from Fordham University of Law, Mr. Gordon was a law clerk for two years in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California for the Honorable Barry Ted Moskowitz, United States District Judge.

• State and Federal Courts of New York
• State and Federal Courts of California

• New York State Bar Association
• Westchester County Bar Association
• White Plains Bar Association

Mr. Gordon has lectured at Pace University School of Law and participates in various continuing legal education programs, relating to municipal, land use and zoning and labor and employment law.

Gordon, Eric L. “Courts No Rubber Stamp on Environmental Reviews.”  Westchester County Business Journal, November 19, 2012.

Mr. Gordon is a Member of the Board of Directors of Legal Services of the Hudson Valley and acts as the firm’s pro bono coordinator. He is a District Leader of the North Castle Democratic Committee.

• 1993, J.D., cum laude, Fordham University School of Law (Order of the Coif, Urban Law Journal)
• 1989, B.A., Cornell University
• 1988, University of London