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Edwin A. Steinmeyer
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Areas of Practice

  • Represents clients before local, state and federal governmental entities and agencies, federal and state trial and appellate courts, and the Division of Administrative Hearings concerning environmental, administrative, natural resources, and civil issues.
  • Assists clients with state and federal wetlands permitting, endangered species issues, sovereign lands authorizations, marina and coastal construction permitting, and linear transportation and utility projects.
  • Admitted to practice before all Florida courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida, and the United States Court of Claims.

Prior Professional Experience

  • Attorney, Florida Department of Natural Resources, 1991-1993.
  • Senior Attorney, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 1993-1997.

Professional, Civic and Community Involvement

  • Martindale-Hubbell, AV-Rating.
  • Florida Trend's 2009 Florida Legal Elite in Environmental and Land Use Law
  • The Florida Bar Association: Administrative Law Section, Environmental and Land Use Law Section, Member.
  • Authored "Dredging up the Butler Act," The Florida Bar Journal (April 1999); "How to Keep the ESA Section 7 Consultation Process Moving," Trends, American Bar Association (January/February 2004).
  • Co-Authored Sovereign Lands, Aquatic Preserves and Outstanding Florida Waters Permitting Considerations.
  • Managing Editor, Florida Environmental and Land Use Law Treatise.
  • Tallahassee Area Association of Environmental Professionals, Secretary and past-president.

Publications and Presentations