Hope Creal Jacobsen

hjacobsen@perkinsthompson.com
Hope Jacobsen is a shareholder and director of Perkins Thompson. Ms. Jacobsen counsels a wide variety of business, institutional and individual clients on environmental liability, compliance and due diligence issues, particularly those associated with business and real estate transactions. She represents clients before local, state and federal agencies in obtaining environmental and land use permits, particularly those required for developing and redeveloping sites, including wetlands, Site Law, stormwater, site plan and subdivision approvals. She also assists clients in brownfields redevelopment and with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection's Voluntary Response Action Program ("VRAP").

Ms. Jacobsen's experience includes defending enforcement actions brought by EPA and DEP, and litigating environmental and land use cases in state and federal court.

Ms. Jacobsen is past Chair (2009), Vice-Chair (2008) and Secretary/Treasurer (2007), Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association, past Website Committee Chair, Women’s Law Section, Maine State Bar Association; past Barrister, Gignoux Inn of Court.

Ms. Jacobsen was a panelist at the E2Tech Council's forum on New Maine DEP Guidelines for Cleaning of Contaminated Soil (2010), the moderator of the Maine Bar Association Seminars on How to Get a Land Use Permit (2007) and Recent Updates in Environmental Law (2009); and a presenter of a seminar on the New Environmental Liability Protections (2006).

Ms. Jacobsen is Peer Review rated for Ethical Standards and Legal Ability by Martindale-Hubbell.

Publications and Presentations

• "Securing Local Land Use Permits," Maine Bar Journal, January, 2001