Practice Areas: Land Use & Zoning, Environmental, State, Local & Municipal
Licensed in Washington since: 1979
Education: Georgetown University Law Center
Selected to Super Lawyers: 1998 - 2024 Call today:
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Eglick & Whited PLLC
1000 Second AvenueSuite 3130
Seattle, WA 98104 Visit website
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Clear writing, effective oral advocacy, and tenacity are hallmarks of Peter J. Eglick's practice. Mr. Eglick represents clients in matters involving land use/real estate, growth management, homeowner associations, environmental, and historic preservation law. He regularly serves as outside counsel advising and representing Washington municipalities in need of his expertise.
On behalf of his clients, Mr. Eglick has appeared before local hearing examiners and agencies, the Washington Shorelines Hearings Board, the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board, the Washington Growth Management Hearings Boards, superior courts and courts of appeals throughout Washington, the Washington Supreme Court, Washington federal district courts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
Rated AV Preeminent* by Martindale-Hubbell's peer-review rating system, Mr. Eglick has also been both an author and invited lecturer on land use matters, including at Continuing Legal Education seminars for peer lawyers and professionals in the field. His lectures and publications focus on land use, environmental law, and the related ethical issues that confront practitioners. Mr. Eglick has also served as a consulting expert and court-appointed referee in legal matters involving land use/real estate.
* AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.
Practice areas
Land Use/Zoning, Environmental, State, Local & MunicipalFirst Admitted: 1975, Pennsylvania
Professional Webpage: http://www.ekwlaw.com/about_peter.htm
- Various Washington government entities at various times, including: Puyallup, Kirkland, Mukilteo, Brier, Edgewood, Port Townsend, Sammamish, Sequim, Woodinville, Bothell, Yakima County.
- Somerset Community Association/Covenant Committee
- HUSH (Helicopter Unsafe Here)
- Innis Arden Club (HOA)
- Laurelhurst Community Club
- Friends of Sammamish Valley
- Talus Residential Association (HOA)
- Bill Point (HOA)
- Jensen Motor-Boat Company
- The Committee for the Preservation of the Seattle Federal Reserve Bank Building
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, B.A. in American Civilization, 1972
- Judicial Law Clerk for Honorable Murray M. Schwartz, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1975-76
- Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, J.D. 1975; Member, Georgetown Law Journal, 1974 - 1975
- Obtained a groundbreaking court of appeals decision upholding for the first time a city’s right under the State Environmental Policy Act to assume SEPA lead agency status and require preparation of an environmental impact statement when the original lead agency, a County, failed to require one.
- Obtained a groundbreaking federal court decision under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) invalidating the Federal Reserve Bank's contract to sell its historic downtown Seattle headquarters building for demolition and redevelopment. Per the statute, the Federal Reserve Bank reimbursed my client for $140,000.00 in attorney's fees.
- Despite a legal and political campaign by the applicant supported by City staff, obtained Seattle Hearing Examiner denial recommendation of a massive major institution twenty year expansion plan into the surrounding community. As a result, the matter settled with limits on the institution's expansion and with the institution's reimbursement of $150,000.00 expense of proceeding to my client.
- Obtained rulings upholding client homeowner association's covenants and bylaws and received a $250,000.00 attorney fee award, believed to be the largest attorney fee award at that time under the Washington Homeowners Association Act.
- "The Myth of Mitigation Under NEPA and the Washington State Environmental Policy Act," by Peter Eglick and Henryk J. Hiller, presented at "NEPA at Twenty" conference, Lewis & Clark College, Northwestern School of Law, 1989, published at 20 ENVTL. L. 773, 776, 1990
- "Ethical Issues", Law Seminars International, 2002
- Partial List: "Ethics for the Environmental and Land Use Practitioner," King County Bar Association, 2010
- "Ethics for Land Use: or, What Every Land Use Attorney Wished Their Ethics Professor Would Have Taught Them in Law School," Law Seminars International Land Use in Washington, New Regulatory, Legislative and Legal Developments, 2009
- "Selected Issues: Administrative Appeals and Judicial Review Under SEPA," Law Seminars International SEPA & NEPA, the Latest on Compliance from Developing Proposals Through Judicial Review, 2009
- "Large Lot Development Patterns in Urban Areas: Is Anything Left of the "Bright Line?" Washington Bar Environmental and Land Use Law Section Midyear Meeting and Seminar, 2008
- "Environmental & Land Use Law: What You Need to Know For 2008," King County Bar Association, December 2007
- "Urban Densities: What the Law Does and Does Not Require", Growth Management Act, Law Seminars International, November 2006
- “Bright Line Fever: How I Learned to Stop Questioning Four Dwelling Units Per Acre and Love the Litowitz Test,” Fall WSAMA (Washington Association of Municipal Attorneys) Conference, October, 2005
- "Land Use and Zoning Law Litigation in Washington," Continuing Legal Education Seminar, December, 2004
- "Development in Resource Lands: Agricultural Lands v. Soccer Fields," Law Seminars International, 2001
- Lecturer, "The New Feudalism: Railroad Preemption of Local Government Land Use Regulation", Oregon Law Institute 1999, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Washington, 1979
- U.S. District Court Western District of Washington, 1979
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1983
- Pennsylvania, 1975
- U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, 1977
- U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 1978
- Member, Board of Trustees, Section of Environmental Law and Land Use, Washington State Bar, 1984 - 1987
- District of Columbia, 1977
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington, 1981
- Martindale Hubbell's peer review rating of "AV® Preeminent™"
- Homeowners Association Law
Office location for Peter J. Eglick
1000 Second Avenue
Suite 3130
Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206-441-1069
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 1998 - 2024
