Biography
For more than three decades, Sharon has counseled clients, particularly those in the real estate development, transportation, manufacturing and environmental services industries, on complex environmental, toxic tort and commercial litigation matters in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and throughout the country.
Her Delaware practice is also known for its focus on corporate and trust and estate litigation.
Sharon’s clients rely on her strategic counsel with issues arising in connection with environmental, health and safety laws, regulations, programs and policies, including:
- Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act
- Delaware Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act
- Pennsylvania Clean Streams Act
- Underground Storage Tank Act
- Clean Water Act
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Coastal Zone Act
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Brownfields Redevelopment programs
Sharon's experience also includes:*
- Successfully defending a toxic tort action through exclusion of adversary's experts pursuant to a Daubert challenge
- Negotiating, assessing and litigating natural resource damages claims
- Advice and counseling on Environmental Audits
- Obtaining necessary permits and approvals on projects involving wetlands
- Advising developers, purchasers and sellers in acquisitions and real estate transactions, including counseling on complex environmental, due diligence, land use, permitting and title issues
- Counseling property owners with storm water issues, including those subject to storm water assessments
- Representing Delaware corporations in litigation involving everything from local operations to international contractual disputes
- Litigation of contentious, high-stakes trust and estate matters, including trust construction, will contests and fiduciary issues
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Sharon’s leadership roles within the firm include:
- Member of the Succession Planning Committee
- Wilmington Office Managing Partner and member of firm’s Executive Committee
- Co-chair of the Environmental Law Department
- Co-chair of the Business Development Subcommittee of the Women’s Initiative
Bar Admissions
- Delaware
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Maryland
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Delaware
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
Education
- University of Delaware (M.B.A., 2004)
- Widener University School of Law (J.D., 1990)
- Rutgers University (B.A., 1987)
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Environmental Litigation Committee, Subcommittee of Women Environmental Litigators (SWEL)
- Delaware State Bar Association
- Environmental Section (Chair, 2023-2024)
- Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, Environmental Committee
- The Committee of 100
- Environment Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey
- Society of Women Environmental Professionals of Greater Philadelphia
Honors & Awards
- Selected as a Delaware Excellence Attorney of the Year finalist by The Legal Intelligencer (2026)
This award is conferred by the The Legal Intelligencer and Law.com. A description of the selection methodology is available here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. - Selected to the "Delaware's Top Lawyers" list for Environmental Law by Delaware Today (2024)
This award is conferred by Delaware Today. A description of the selection methodology is available here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. - Selected to the "Environment Attorney of the Year in Delaware" list (2014, 2015)
This award is conferred by Corporate INTL Magazine. A description of the selection methodology is available here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
