Areas of Practice:

Environmental
Insurance Coverage
Land Use
Litigation

Education:

Columbia Law School, 1981 J.D.
with honors

University of Pennsylvania, 1977 B.A.
cum laude

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Arthur P. Kreiger

Email: akreiger@andersonkreiger.com
Phone: 617-621-6540
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Arthur P. Kreiger, Partner

A co-founder of the firm, Art Kreiger has more than 25 years of experience as an advocate, counselor, litigator and mediator.  Art is a tenacious litigator, creative problem solver and insightful counselor who delivers personal attention and demonstrated results.  His experience includes:

   
• Representing public and private clients in federal and state superfund litigation, mediation and negotiations;     
• Recovering millions of dollars of response costs and     damages from parties responsible for oil and hazardous     material contamination, and successfully defending     many clients against such claims;   
• Advising clients and drafting documents on environmental     issues in real estate transactions, for industrial and     commercial facilities; and   
• Defending industrial and commercial clients in DEP enforcement proceedings.
     
• Obtaining tens of millions of dollars in insurance defense     and indemnity funds for public and private sector clients     under general liability, environmental and nuclear     policies.
     
• Representing local boards of health, operators and residents in solid waste facility proceedings; and   
• Litigating and negotiating high stakes zoning disputes     involving all types of projects, including big box retail,     commercial projects, religious and educational     institutions, agricultural uses, federal and state detention     facilities, industrial projects, subdivisions and affordable     housing.
     
• Testifying in state and federal court as an expert witness in contamination and environmental insurance cases;   
• Serving as a court-appointed Master in a municipal     sewerage dispute, a Hearing Officer in local landfill site     assignment hearings, and a Hearing Officer in an     affordable housing appeal at the Housing Appeals     Committee; and    
• Resolving dozens of environmental and land use disputes as a certified mediator for nearly 20 years.
     
• Serving as Co-Chairman of the Boston Bar Association's     Environmental Law Section and a member of the     Section's Steering Committee for 15 years;   
• Serving as Co-Chair of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts’ Environmental Committee;   
• Teaching advanced environmental law at Franklin Pierce Law Center; and
• Publishing many continuing legal education articles and     presenting on many panels on environmental, insurance     and land use law; and   
• Serving as a member of the Belmont Zoning Board of Appeals.