Environmental Attorney Terry D. Avchen is Featured as One of 'America's Best Lawyers'

Environmental Attorney Terry D. Avchen is Featured as One of 'America's Best Lawyers'

Avchen is a Leading Source for Journalists on Environmental Law

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental attorney Terry Avchen said today that private property owners should always look for ways to turn a costly environmental cleanup into a profitable business opportunity.

"We are at the dawn of a new era with respect to contaminated property," said Mr. Avchen, who heads the Environmental Practice at the Century City law firm of Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro.

"While these two words can strike fear in the minds of business people," Mr. Avchen said, "contaminated properties can actually represent huge opportunities, and may represent one of the few undervalued classes of real estate assets in what some would consider a real estate bubble."

Mr. Avchen is an authoritative source on the latest amendments to the Superfund law and other state and federal laws and the latest insurance strategies that can provide protections for succeeding owners of contaminated properties.

"Environmental litigation can now, in many cases, be reduced to creative problem solving," Mr. Avchen said. "Many of these cases and properties represent exciting opportunities."

Mr. Avchen, one of the founding members of Christensen Miller, will be featured on Forbes Radio's "America's Best Lawyers," along with Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Lanny Davis, special counsel to President Clinton, and David Boies, Special Justice Department Trial Counsel in the Microsoft antitrust case. As the name implies, "America's Best Lawyers" features the best legal minds in America who are on the cutting edge of their respective fields.

Mr. Avchen has lectured widely on environmental topics, including complex real estate transactions, environmental insurance, Prop 65 and environmental law from a business perspective. In 2004, Los Angeles Magazine listed Mr. Avchen among its Super Lawyers, noting, He ... "has distinguished himself as one of the foremost authorities on environmental law and the kind of expert you turn to when the stakes are high."

Environmental journalists can reach Mr. Avchen at Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro in Los Angeles, (310) 553-3000, or via email at tavchen@chrismill.com.

Source: Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, LLP

CONTACT: Terry D. Avchen of Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser,
Weil & Shapiro, LLP, +1-310-553-3000, tavchen@chrismill.com