AREAS OF PRACTICE
Environmental, Energy, Planning and Land Use, Administrative and Water Policy.

• Clients have included local governments, Special Districts, private sector, agricultural and Tribal entities involving development and regulatory issues such as jurisdictional wetlands, endangered species, Everglades Restoration and water resources management.
• Represents clients on environmental matters before local, state and federal agencies, including wetland and water resources permitting, environmental and coastal zone issues.
• Represents clients on federal and state rule making and legislative issues.
• Assists clients on comprehensive planning, code development and all types of land use issues.
  Federal and state litigation on energy, water resources management and environmental regulatory matters.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2011 to present
Erin L. Deady, P.A., Of Counsel to Corbett and White, P.A.

2003-2011
Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A., Shareholder, 2008. Ms. Deady also created the firm’s Sustainability Practice Group in 2010 and served as its first Chair.

1997-2003
Environmental Counsel, Audubon of Florida, an alliance of the National Audubon and Florida Audubon Societies. Ms. Deady provided policy formulation and legal representation on a range of issues including water resources, land use, administrative law, land acquisition and Everglades Restoration policy.

1995-1997
Various land use planning and environmental issues for the Village of Wellington, the Broward County Department of Planning and Environmental Protection, the South Florida Water Management District and as a fellow at the Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions at Florida Atlantic University.

EDUCATION

Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center, Juris Doctorate, 2000.
Florida Atlantic University, Master of Public Administration, Environmental Growth Management Fellow, 1996.
University of the Virgin Islands, Master of Public Administration Program, attended 1995.
University of Miami, Bachelor of Arts, Marine Science Affairs, 1993.

PROFESSIONAL, CIVIC AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT & MEMBERSHIPS

Admitted to Florida Bar (2000), member of Executive Council for the Environmental and Land Use Law Section, 2002-Present.

• Vice Chair 2011-Present.
• Treasurer and Secretary 2009-2010.
• Affiliate Committee Chair 2007-2009.
• Continuing Legal Education Chair 2005-2007.
• Public Interest Committee Public 2003-2005.

Member of the American Institute of Certified Planners & the Florida Chapter of the American Planning
Association.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED AP®), U.S. Green Building Council.

Gale Academy Board of the Friends of the Environmental Academy, Forest Hill High School, 2008-2010.

Participated in Southern Most AIDS Ride, Miami to Key West, to raise funds for AIDS/HIV Charities, 2004
& 2008.

Member, Alternative Water Supply Grant Selection Committee, SFWMD, May-June, 2003.

State Co-Chair of the Everglades Coalition, 2002 & April 2003-October 2003.

Pal-Mar Water Control District Board of Supervisors, July 2002-July 2005.

COURTS

Admitted to Practice all Florida Courts.
Admitted to Practice in the United States District Court, Northern District of Florida.
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

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