Bricklemyer Smolker & Bolves, p.a.

“Property rights. Every American citizen values these rights and regards their protection as a basic premise upon which our constitutional democracy is founded.”

Margaret M. Craig

Email: MargaretC@bsbfirm.com

EDUCATION:

L.L.M. Environmental Law, George Washington University National Law Center, 1993

J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, 1988 Honors grades in Commercial Paper, Law and Nature, Contracts and Torts

B.A., State University of New York College at Geneseo, 1985 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society

EXPERIENCE:

Bricklemyer Smolker & Bolves, P.A., Associate

Southwest Florida Water Management District, Senior Attorney 2004-2006, Assistant General Counsel 1996-2004

Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Associate General Counsel, 1995-1996

Ocean Conservancy, Attorney, 1994-1995

United States Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Attorney 1988-1993

Ms. Craig’s practice includes administrative and civil litigation in a variety of areas, with an emphasis on land use, environmental permitting, water use permitting and other regulatory matters. Ms. Craig’s extensive administrative law experience ranges from hearings to the appellate level, and includes agency rulemaking.

ORGANIZATIONS/ACTIVITIES:

Florida Bar, Section on Environmental and Land Use Law

New York Bar

District of Columbia Bar

PUBLISHED WORKS:

with Suzanne Iudicello, Marine Biodiversity and International Law: Instruments and Institutions That Can Be Used to Conserve Marine Biodiversity Internationally, TULANE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL, VOLUME 8, ISSUE 1, at 123-161 (Winter 1994)