About the Authors

• Author: Margaret 'Peggy' Strand/Lowell Rothschild
• Pages: 13-13

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About the Aut hor s

Lowell Rothschild is a partner at Venable, LLP. He represents

corporate, institutional, governmental, and quasi-governmental

clients on issues regarding compliance with federal, state, and local

environmental laws, with an emphasis on wetlands, environmental

review, and infrastructure development. Mr. Rothschild’s practice

involves civil, administrative, and criminal litigation as well as per-

mitting, counseling, and compliance work. He has been involved

in litigation matters in st ate and federal courts and before admin-

istrative tribunals.

He ha s signicant policy experience with both t he legislative

and administrative processes of environmental law, including

administrative law experience, and experience with international

environmental matters, including trade and environmental policy

issues and European Union environmental regulations. He serves

as the Liaison to the Chairman of Trade and Environmental Policy

Advisory C ommittee of t he U.S. Trade Representative. He is t he

co-author of “Wetlands: Avoiding the Swamp Monster,” Environmental Aspects of Real Estate and Com-

mercial Transactions, 3d ed. (ABA: 2004); “Wetland Basics in the Twenty-First Century,” Land Use Law

and Zoning Digest (Vol. 55 No. 10, October 2003); and “Mobile Source Air Toxics: What’s Known, Not

Known, and What to Do About It,” Natural Resources & Environment (Vol. 21, No. 2, Fall 2006).

Margaret “Peggy” Stra nd is a partner at Venable, LLP in Wash-

ington, D.C. Ms. Strand ha s substantial experience advising on

the regulatory requirements of federal and state law, including

wetlands, natural resources, protected species, climate change, and

pollution control. She was Chief of the Environmental Defense

Section in the U.S. Justice Department, Environmental and Natu-

ral Resources Division, from 1984 to 1991, and served as a Justice

Department tria l attorney a nd supervisor since 1976. Ms. Strand

is active with the National Academy of Sciences, as she currently

chairs the Environmental Law Committee of the Transportation

Research Board and has ser ved on the Academy’s Board on Envi-

ronmental Studies and Toxicology. She has also participated in

various Academy study committees evaluating wetlands and other

environmental topics.

She is past chair of the American Bar Association’s Water Qual-

ity and Wetlands Committee, Section on Environment, Energ y,

and Resources Law (SEER) and serves on the AL I-ABA Advisory Committee on Environmental Law. She

is a regular chair and speaker on wetlands a nd species protection topics for ALI-ABA and other bar orga-

nizations. She has also served on the board of directors of the Environmental Law Institute, t he Editorial

Board of the Environmental Law Reporter a nd the Advisory Board for the National Wetlands Newsletter.