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Hull Barrett ~ Darren G. Meadows ~ Member Augusta, Georgia

Best Lawyers: Environmental Law

Martindale Hubbell AV Rated for Legal Ability & Ethical Standards



Darren G. Meadows

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(706) 828-2015
(706) 722-9779



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Augusta Office
801 Broad Street, 7th floor
Augusta, GA 30901

Practice Areas

  • Commercial Acquisitions, Development and Leasing
  • Commercial Loan Workouts and Foreclosures
  • Eminent Domain and Condemnation
  • Environmental Litigation
  • Environmental Real Estate
  • Environmental Transactional and Regulatory Issues
  • Land Use and Zoning
  • Lease and Real Estate Disputes
  • Local Government Law
  • Residential and Commercial Borrowing/Lending
Darren practices in the areas of real estate, corporate, transactional and local government law, specializing in environmental matters. He represents buyers, sellers, and lenders in real estate transactions and related matters, including zoning and construction applications and permits. He also advises and represents individual and corporate clients and their interests before state and federal regulatory agencies, as well as in negotiations and disputes with private parties.

His extensive real estate experience includes the coordination and review of title research for the acquisition of two regional water reservoirs encompassing several thousand acres and personally conducting title research in over half of Georgia’s 159 Counties. Darren employs both business and environmental expertise in coordinating and overseeing permit applications, due diligence efforts for real estate and corporate transactions, and managing both long and short-term environmental remediation projects. He has experience in soil erosion and storm water, wetlands, underground storage tanks (USTs) and above ground storage tanks (ASTs), hazardous waste, biomedical waste, solid waste, asbestos, waste water, water use permits (drinking water and irrigation), and air protection issues. Darren has facilitated the remediation and resale of numerous previously contaminated “Brownfield” properties, guiding the parties and their lenders through the processes available to protect them from liability.


Education

  • University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, 1990, B.A.
  • Georgia State University College of Law, 1994, J.D.
    Honors: Environmental Law Society President


Professional Experience

  • Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD)

    Hazardous Waste Branch Atlanta, Georgia In House Counsel

  • Compliance Facilitator with Browning-Ferris Industries’ Atlanta

    Landfill

  • Legislative Attache in the Georgia General Assembly


Professional associations

  • American Bar Association
  • Augusta Bar Association
  • Chicago Title Insurance Company, Agent
  • First American Title Insurance Company, Agent
  • Georgia EPD Brownfields Advisory Panel
  • Lawyers Title Insurance Company, Agent
  • State Bar of Georgia Environmental Section Member, Prior At Large Board Member
  • State Bar of Georgia Real Estate Section Member


civic associations

  • Glanzmann’s Foundation Board Member
  • Medical Mission Clinic Board Member


Honors & Awards

  • The Best Lawyers in America® - Environmental Law
  • Martindale-Hubbell® AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated


Admissions

  • State Bar of Georgia


Publications

  • "Environmental Law Chapter" Georgia Hospital Law Manual (Georgia Academy of Health Care Attorneys), 6th edition, 2012 & 2011.




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