Attorney Profile

Bob Schmitter has over 25 years of experience in successfully handling a wide variety of corporate, business, and environmental management issues. His career has spanned consulting, academia, and a solo law practice, working closely with architects, engineers, and environmental consultants in all aspects of project planning and management. He has provided technical assistance and compliance counseling to individuals, government agencies, municipalities, and corporations of all sizes. During his career as a Senior Scientist for the Georgia Tech Research Institute he served as Head of the Environmental Management Branch and Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Revitalization, a program combining civil and economic infrastructure, land use, and the natural and built environments with property development. He founded the Firm in 2003, with a primary focus on business law, environmental issues, and general legal issues. His work has included creating corporations and nonprofits; contract drafting, negotiation, and review; development of business documents including franchise disclosure documents and accompanying franchise creation; the representation of a homeowner’s association in the transfer of control of operations from the developer; representation of clients in actions to recover damages from environmental exposures; and legal consultation services to an international law firm representing a national bank defending asbestos exposure claims. Mr. Schmitter is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia Business Law and Environmental Law Sections, the Cobb County Bar Association, and was formerly the Chair of the Environmental Law and Toxic Torts Section of the Atlanta Bar Association. He has published over 50 articles for peer-reviewed and trade journals, and has spoken in over 300 seminars around the country on the topics of brownfield redevelopment, asbestos, lead-based paint, and USTs among others.

Bob is admitted to practice in all Georgia state courts and the Georgia Supreme Court

Education:

John Marshall Law School, J.D.

University of Georgia, M.S.

Vanderbilt University, B.S.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Schmitter, R.D., “Limiting Liability and Preparing for Depositions,” presentation to the annual joint meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the Environmental Information Association and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2016.

Schmitter, R.D., “Land Quality: Urban/Industrial (Brownfields),” in Encyclopedia of Appalachia. (Abramson, R. and Haskell, J. eds.) Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.

“Methamphetamine: Issues in Environmental Law and Management,” State Bar of Georgia Environmental Law Section Newsletter. Summer 2005; co-author with Caravati, K. and Doyle, R.

Panelist, Revitalizing Georgia Communities: Community Renewal & Brownfields Redevelopment Workshop, hosted by the National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals, Atlanta, GA, August 18-19, 2003.

Schmitter, R.D., Issues in Contaminated Property Redevelopment. Real Estate Development and Reuse Conference, International Economic Development Council, August 8-9, 2002, Atlanta, GA.

Brownfields 101 for Communities and Neighborhoods. Presentation to the City of Atlanta’s Brownfields Workshop, Atlanta, GA October 6, 2001.

Redevelopment of Environmentally Contaminated Property: A Guidebook, Presentation to the Urban Land Institute’s Atlanta District Council Environmental Committee Brownfield Panel, Atlanta, GA, August 14, 2001.