Firm Overview

Michelman & Bricker, P.C.
Environmental Law Attorneys – Healthcare – Construction
Family Law – White Collar Crime – Business Law

From offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Longmeadow (Springfield), Massachusetts and San Juan, Puerto Rico, the attorneys at Michelman & Bricker, P.C., primarily practice along the Eastern Seaboard and within the Caribbean Basin. Our experienced environmental law attorneys have been a respected source for effective legal counsel since 1974.

Our practice areas include:

• Environmental Law
• Health Care Law
• Construction Litigation
• Family Law
• White Collar Crime Defense
• Business Law

David F. Michelman
David F. Michelman has been an active environmental law lawyer for almost 30 years. He is recognized for his ability to take a leadership role in litigating or settling Superfund cases involving multi-million dollar cleanups of landfills.

He is often asked to serve as Liaison Counsel and/or Common Counsel, to represent the common interests of large groups of parties. In this role, he has successfully steered such cases away from expensive, uncontrolled litigation, toward a managed, cost-effective ADR process that is used as a model for other sites.

De Micromis & De Minimis Settlements

He negotiates de micromis and de minimis settlements designed to get individual parties out of these cases at an early stage. He also participates in global settlement negotiations, on behalf of all of the remaining parties, to settle all of the federal or state governments claims against them.

Environmental Compliance Counseling

Mr. Michelman also provides counseling to clients on a wide range of environmental compliance issues, permitting, and real estate transactions. He has represented buyers or sellers of contaminated real estate (“Brownfields”), assisting them in making sure that these properties are cleaned up to state standards so that the parties can obtain releases from liability for further cleanups.

Environmental Law Attorney

In 1974, while he was with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), he participated in focusing nationwide attention on the destruction of the ozone layer of the upper atmosphere, by bringing lawsuits against various federal agencies to seek a ban on aerosol spray products containing chlorofluorocarbons. Thereafter, during more than a decade of public service with the District Attorney of Philadelphia, he helped found the field of environmental criminal law, developing and supervising criminal prosecutions for the illegal storage and disposal of hazardous, industrial, municipal and infectious wastes.

Mr. Michelman was responsible for bringing the first criminal prosecution in Pennsylvania under the state's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, against a hazardous waste transporter who bribed city employees to dump more than 1.5 million gallons of toxic waste at the Enterprise Avenue Landfill.

As a result of this investigation and prosecution, the City of Philadelphia successfully cleaned up this site, and was able to persuade the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make this the first Superfund site to be removed from the National Priorities List (NPL). 

Bar Admission: Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts.  University of Pennsylvania (B.A.1971); Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1974).  Consultant, National Marine Fisheries Service (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1973-1975); attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 1975; Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia District Attorneys' Office, 1975-1986 (Assistant Chief, Special Investigations Unit, 1986); Private practice in environmental law and "white-collar" criminal defense, 1986-Present.

Publications: "Creative Criminal Prosecutions," Outlook Environmental Law Journal , 1973.  David. Michelman’s work has also been featured in Environmental Action and Chem-Tech magazines. 

Guest Lecturer: University of Pennsylvania; Environmental Training Institute of the Caribbean.  Present or Past Membership in: Environmental and Toxic Tort Subcommittee of the Fidelity and Surety Committee, American Bar Association; Environmental Law Section, Philadelphia Bar Association; Philadelphia Geological Society.

Languages:  Spanish and French.

Amy Bricker
Ms. Bricker's practice focuses on family law, with an emphasis on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as an alternative to litigation. She is a trained Mediator, assisting lawyers and their clients in resolving disputes without going to trial..

Collaborative Law Attorney

She is also trained in the practice of Collaborative Law, an alternative and amicable way of negotiating divorce settlements out of court, through voluntary agreement between the spouses. More information about how Collaborative Law Practice resolves divorce disputes respectfully, without destroying families, can be found at  http://www.collaborativepractice.com/.

Ms. Bricker’s private practice offers alternative approaches for resolving domestic and probate matters as well as disputes in other legal areas. Ms. Bricker is a consultant for the Legal Access Program of the YWCA of Western Massachusetts, Inc., where she provides legal consultation, education, and representation for victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. She is also a member of the attorney panel for the Children's Law Project of the Hampden County (Mass.) Probate and Family Court.

Bar Admissions:  Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  Western New England College Law School (J.D. 1993);  Simmons College (B.A. 1973); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.B.A. 1979).  Areas of Practice: Family law and probate practice, environmental and construction litigation.

Member: Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation; Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council; Hampden County (Mass.) Bar Association; past member of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts.

President (2005-2007) and Member of Board of Directors (1996-present) of Jewish Family Services of Western Massachusetts, Inc.; Member of Board of Trustees of Greater Springfield Jewish Federation (2001- present); Member of Board of Trustees of Springfield (Mass.) Technical Community College Foundation (2000- present).

Sharon Devins Block
Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Block developed extensive experience in courtroom proceedings as an Assistant Public Defender in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and as a judicial law clerk. Ms.  Block’s primary focus is Environmental Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense, and Family Law.

Bar Admissions:  Pennsylvania and New Jersey, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.  Temple University (B.S. 1972); Villanova University (M.A. 1975); Temple University School of Law (J.D. 1988).  Assistant Public Defender, Montgomery County Public Defender's Office, 1988-1990.  Special Assistant Public Defender, Montgomery County Public Defender's Office, 1990-1998.  Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Rhonda Lee Danielle, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, 1995-1996.  Arbitrator, Montgomery County, 1988-present.

Member: Nicolas A. Cipriani Family Law Inn of Court

Tracy L. Miller
Ms. Miller is both a lawyer and a licensed registered pharmacist. Her twelve years of experience in pharmacy lend a scientific background and support for her work in Health Care Litigation and Environmental Litigation.  Currently, Ms.  Miller focuses on Health Care Litigation, Environmental Litigation, and Commercial Litigation and Transactional Work.

Bar Admissions: Pennsylvania and New Jersey, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.  Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (B.S. 1991); Widener University School of Law (J.D. 2003).  Areas of Practice: Health Care Litigation, Environmental Litigation, and Commercial Litigation and Transactional Work.

N. Marlene Fleming
Ms. Fleming brings 20 years of hospital administration and human resource experience to private practice.  In addition to environmental law, employment, discrimination and labor law litigation, her practice includes counseling employer clients with respect to day to day employment and management issues.

Bar Admissions:  Pennsylvania Supreme Court, US District Court for the Eastern District, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  West Liberty State College (BS 1965); Duquesne University (MS 1970; Capital University School of Law (JD 1978).  Attorney, Cox and Ohman, Idaho (1978-1980); In-house counsel (1980-1983);  Human Resource Administration (1983-1989);  Life Care, Nursing Home Facility Administration (1989-1991);  Attorney environmental and employment law (1991-1994); Hospital Administration (1995-2005); Areas of Practice  environmental law, employment and labor law, healthcare law, and elder law.

Member: Nicolas A. Cipriani Family Law Inn of Court

Federico Calaf – LeGrand (Of Counsel)
Mr. Calaf-LeGrand is an experienced transactional and trial lawyer whose practice involves a wide range of commercial activities including banking, commercial litigation, and patent law.  Since 1974, Mr. LeGrand has maintained a private practice in banking, commercial litigation, and patent law in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Bar Admission:  Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit.  University of Puerto Rico Law School (J.D. 1973); Catholic University of Puerto Rico (B.A. 1970).  Partner, Reichard, Calaf, and Walker (San Juan, Puerto Rico): Private practice in banking, commercial litigation, and patent law (1974-present.)  Appointed by the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to the Board of Bar Examiners (1986-1990).  Appointed to Board of Directors of the Notary's Association of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (1990 to present).

Lecturer to Banks and other business organizations.  Member, Board of Directors and Audit Committee, Santander National Bank (March 1989-present).  Member:  Bar Association of Puerto Rico, Federal and American Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; U.S. Trademark Association; Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce.

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Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the health care, construction, family law, criminal defense, business law, and environmental law lawyers of Michelman & Bricker, P.C., serve clients throughout Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks, Chester, Camden, Bergen, Burlington, Middlesex, and Gloucester counties, including the communities of Doylestown, Harrisburg, Reading, Pottstown, Allentown, Easton, Scranton, Media, Norristown, Camden, Trenton, and Newark.  The firm’s lawyers also have offices in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Longmeadow (Springfield), Massachusetts and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and serve clients along the Eastern Seaboard.