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John Marwell’s
practice includes litigation, administrative, and transactional work.
He regularly represents clients before legislative, planning and zoning
boards, obtaining environmental and land-use approvals for residential
and commercial development projects throughout the region. He litigates
land use, environmental, real estate, and commercial matters in the
State courts, including having served successfully as lead counsel in
several cases of statewide significance and national interest, from
the trial court to the highest appellate courts. Representative clients
include real estate developers, the building and realty industry, conservation
organizations, not-for-profit corporations, business corporations, religious
and educational organizations, and individuals. He and the firm do not
represent opponents of real estate development. Recent approvals
which he and the firm have obtained include the rezoning and environmental
approvals for major commercial and residential developments in Southern
Westchester and the successful defense of litigation challenging those
approvals; the rezoning, site plan and environmental approvals for the
adaptive reuse of an architecturally designed stone barns complex in
Central Westchester and auto storage facilities in Southern and Northern
Westchester; successfully opposing numerous proposed municipal rezoning
initiatives throughout the area, including one that would have prohibited
the adaptive reuse of former waterfront industrial properties in Southern
Westchester and another that would have imposed highly restrictive zoning
regulations on a religious and educational institution in Rockland County;
and obtaining the rezoning, environmental, site plan and special permit
approvals for the first affordable senior housing development in one
Northern Westchester community. He is presently
representing the owners of substantial proposed senior housing projects
in Southern Westchester and Putnam County, the latter involving prosecuting
one Article 78 litigation and defending another; a major commercial
and residential adaptive reuse project of a corporate campus property
in Northern Westchester; and a proposed new four-year college in Central
Westchester. He has also successfully represented clients accused of
zoning violations, through both administrative and litigation processes. Active in professional and community affairs, Mr. Marwell is a Vice President of the New York State Bar Association and a member of its Executive Committee. He is a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation. He is a past president of the Westchester County Bar Association and the Westchester County Bar Foundation, and past chairman of Teatown Lake Reservation, the largest non-governmental nature conservation and education center in Westchester County. He is a former adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law, and lectures on litigation, professional ethics, land use and environmental law matters at bar association and other professional conferences. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, he began his career as an attorney with IBM Corporation, and has been in private practice since 1976. |
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