Attorney Reich is a trained, experienced mediator and a trained arbitrator (formerly a member of the commercial litigation arbitration panel of the AAA). He is an appointed member of the Dispute Resolution Council of the Massachusetts Bar Assn. and has organized and been a panelist a number of educational programs co-hosted by the Council. For a number of years, Mr. Reich served as adjunct faculty at the Boston University School of Law where he taught alternative dispute resolution, environmental law and energy law and policy.

After graduation from Harvard Law School, Ken was a staff attorney with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and thereafter joined the law firm of Piper and Marbury (now known as DLA Piper) where he eventually headed up their pro bono office. From 1979-86 he served as a trial attorney, then Assistant Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he litigated as well as supervised a number of complex, precedential cases in the federal courts and worked on policy issues.

Ken frequently speaks and writes on energy and environmental topics and has been quoted in the national media and trade press. He issues periodic updates on breaking issues in national environmental and energy policy and regulation. In addition to articles and speaking engagements, Ken previously authored several versions of the chapter on the “Massachusetts Clean Air Act”, Massachusetts Environmental Law (MCLE) and the chapter, “Developments in Criminal and Civil Enforcement under Key Environmental Statutes”, Environmental Risk Management, A Desk Reference, ed. Eric B. Rothenberg and Dean Jeffery Telego (RTM Communications, Inc., 1991).

Attorney Reich formerly served as co-chair of the Environmental Litigation Committee and as co-founder and co-chair of the Clean Air Committee of the Boston Bar Association. For a number of years, he was adjunct faculty at the Boston University School of Law, where he taught a seminar on hot topics in environmental law and a practical skills- oriented course on alternative dispute resolution, including mock negotiations and mediation.

Ken is currently admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He is also admitted in a number of federal appellate and district courts. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D. cum laude) and Cornell University (B.A. in Government).