Laurence J. Aurbach

Laurence J. Aurbach, an attorney for over thirty years, is Past Chairman of the Urban Environment Committee and the Section of State and Local Government Law of the American Bar Association and a past section delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. He has extensive practical experience in local and the federal government as an administrator and attorney.

Mr. Aurbach has worked as Deputy County Counsel for Santa Clara County, California, where he was responsible for drafting zoning and subdivision procedures. He was an Executive Assistant in the City of Cleveland Department of Community Development under Mayor Stokes. He served in policy and legal positions in the U.S. government (DOT, FAA, CAB and NOAA) for eighteen years, and drafted the Department of Transportation's environmental procedures.

In the FAA, he supervised the preparation of environmental training programs for the FAA Academy. In the CAB and NOAA he was responsible for programmatic environmental impact statements in airline deregulation and deep seabed mining.

Mr. Aurbach authored a brochure on "Gifts of Land: Tax Advantages to the Individual". The Nature Conservancy published 100,000 of the brochures and brought in $1 billion worth of land.

Mr. Aurbach is a member of the California, Ohio, and District of Columbia Bars. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of California School of Law in Berkeley. He has served as Adjunct Professor at The American University, teaching courses in Environmental Management and Urban Environmental Planning. He is also a Certified Financial Planner. He has served as President of his neighborhood association and is a founder of its historical society.

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