Marty M. Judge is a shareholder in the firm’s Environmental Practice Group. He focuses on all facets of environmental litigation, in addition to environmental compliance and counseling work. Mr. Judge has widespread experience in environmental matters concerning CERCLA (Superfund), RCRA and New Jersey Spill Act actions; Natural Resource Damage (NRD) claims; ISRA applicability and compliance matters; underground storage tank issues; and indemnity and contribution actions among jointly responsible parties. His experience also includes water discharge and water allocation/resource law, brownfields and redevelopment, the environmental permitting components of land use, waste-water planning and federal/state wetlands jurisdiction matters, solid waste permitting and compliance, air pollution permitting and compliance, pesticide compliance and enforcement, administrative agency litigation and appellate jurisprudence, environmental insurance coverage claims and toxic tort litigation (including class action defense).
Mr. Judge joined Flaster/Greenberg after serving as a partner with a large national firm and having previously served as chief environmental litigator at another substantial law firm. He also served as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of New Jersey representing the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in all facets of its work. He is the former law clerk to the Honorable Milton B. Conford (deceased), former Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court and a temporary member of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Mr. Judge has, in the past, lectured at the request of the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts to New Jersey's Chancery Division Judges on environmental litigation issues. He has also been a participating lecturer at numerous environmental law seminars, has served as a moot court judge for the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic, and has been a guest lecturer on environmental issues at Rutgers Law School. In addition to authoring and editing various other publications, he is a co-author of "History of Environmental Problems," the introductory chapter of The Environmental Dispute Handbook published by John Wiley & Sons in 1991.
Mr. Judge is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has studied at both La Sorbonne in Paris and L'Universite Francois Rabelais in Tours, France.Representative Matters
- Served as lead or liaison counsel in several multimillion-dollar cost recovery/cleanup actions involving sites on the National Priorities List
- Firsthand experience in managing complex, multiparty, multi-action litigation and has been called upon to address many issues of constitutional, statutory construction and jurisdictional dimension, in addition to basic environmental disputes
- On behalf of a large developer, successfully defended an appellate challenge to the New Jersey Supreme Court brought by various environmental groups seeking to invalidate CAFRA, freshwater wetlands and stream encroachment permits issued by the NJDEP for a several hundred unit mixed-use development
- Obtained favorable settlements and successfully litigated various cases to conclusion for both Fortune 500 and middle-market companies in matters involving cost recovery, CERCLA/Spill Act and penalty enforcement issues
- Brought and maintained appellate challenges to NJDEP regulations
- Successfully defended to the United States Supreme Court an action alleging a “taking” and for other damages brought by a downstream-water user seeking in excess of $1 billion for lost water diversion on behalf of a purveyor permitted to withdraw water from a large New Jersey river for drinking water purposes
- Obtained dismissal on behalf of a real estate developer of an action brought by a competitor challenging the client’s receipt of a sewage treatment works approval to allow construction of a several hundred unit multifamily housing development, including low-income housing units
- Successfully negotiated a collective five figure settlement in one of the first lawsuits brought by the NJDEP seeking to recover Natural Resource Damages (NRD) for groundwater contamination on two sites where the NJDEP had originally claimed the client’s liability was in the mid six-figure range for each of the sites separately
Honors & Awards
- Rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell
- Named a New Jersey "Super Lawyer," 2006 – 2012, by Thomson Reuters, publishers of New Jersey Super Lawyers
- American Bar Association’s directory of litigation attorneys
- Who’s Who in American Law
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Natural Resources and Litigation Sections
- Mercer County Bar Association
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Environmental Section
- Past Co-chair, Environmental Section
- New Jersey Supreme Court
- Past Member, Standing Civil Practice Committee
- Justice Stewart G. Pollock Environmental American Inn of Court
- Master, Executive Committee member, and Counselor to the Inn
- New Jersey Builders Association
- Member, Environmental Affairs, Redevelopment and Legal Action Committees
News
- Press Release(April 11, 2012)
- Press Release(March 23, 2012)
- Press Release(March 13, 2012)
- Press Release(March 28, 2011)
- Press Release(February 2, 2011)
- Press Release(June 9, 2010)
- Press Release(March 22, 2010)
- Press Release(March 11, 2010)
- Press Release(November 4, 2009)
- Press Release(September 2, 2009)
- Press Release(March 24, 2009)
- Press Release(November 14, 2007)
Seminars & Speaking Engagements
- Working with Your LSRPRutgers University(April 18, 2012)
- Annual Environmental Review2012 Altantic Builders Convention(March 28, 2012)
- New Jersey Site Remediation and LSRPs2011 Atlantic Builders Convention(April 6, 2011)
- Annual Environmental Review2010 Atlantic Builders Convention(April 14, 2010)
- SWEP (Society of Women Environmental Professionals)(January 28, 2010)
- Flaster/Greenberg and Roux Associates(November 18, 2009)
- Atlantic Builders Convention(April 22, 2009)
Articles & Alerts
- Legal Alert(March 31, 2008)
Practice Areas
Industry Groups
News, Events & Articles
Admissions
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- Rutgers University School of Law–Camden, J.D., with honors, 1978
- Articles Editor, Rutgers–Camden Law Journal
- Rutgers University, B.A., with honors and high distinction, 1975
Clerkships
- The Honorable Milton B. Conford (deceased), Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court
