Joanne Vos

Associate, Real Estate Department
Member, Environmental Practice Group
Member, Green Building Practice Group

Practice Focus

Ms. Vos focuses her practice in environmental law, environmental litigation, contamination and compliance, land use, regulatory and toxic tort/asbestos litigation. 

Ms. Vos has successfully litigated numerous complex environmental matters, based in both equity and non-equity, and predicated upon concepts of general negligence and strict liability within the context of the New Jersey Spill Compensation & Control Act. She has represented clients in both the public and private arenas and she has served as Special Environmental Counsel to the Township of North Brunswick. She has also represented property owners, individuals, proprietors, and small businesses such as gas stations, auto repair / body shops, and dry cleaners in insurance coverage disputes as well as environmental compliance matters prosecuted by local and state authorities. Ms. Vos has also assisted in the coordination of remedial action plans on behalf of large, privately-owned, and regulated businesses including solid waste management and Class B recycling facilities. 

Professional Activities / Honors

• Chairman of the Board of the New Jersey Defense Association for the 2010-2011 term.
• Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the New Jersey Defense Association.
• Past Chair of the Diversity, Scholarship, and Young Lawyers Committees of the New Jersey Defense Association.
• Member of the Editorial Board and Long Term Planning Committee of the New Jersey Defense Association.
• Member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI).
• Member of the New Jersey Licensed Site Remediation Professionals Association.
• Member of the Environmental Committee of the New Jersey Builders Association.
• Member of the United States Green Building Council New Jersey Chapter.
• Listed in Super Lawyers - Rising Stars Edition in the Environmental category since 2007.
• Identified as a Future Star by Benchmark Litigation 2009.
• Selected as one of Real Estate New Jersey magazine's Women of Influence (December 2008).
• Member of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association.
• Member of the Middlesex County Bar Association.
• Adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
• Member of the Hillsborough Republican Committee.

Publications / Articles / Presentations

• Co-Author, "Going Green by Building Green," New Jersey Law Journal, August 23, 2010.
• Author, "NJDEP Site Remediation Notification and Public Outreach Rules: One-Year," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, August 2009.
• Author, "The Residential Development Solar Energy Systems Act," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, July 2009.
• Author, "Franklin Mutual Insurance Company v. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance Company: Application of Continuous Trigger Theory," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, June 2009.
• Author, "Recent Federal Tax Incentives for Building Green," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, June 2009.
• Author, "Public Outreach for Contaminated Site Cleanups," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, October 2008.
• Author, "The Toxic Mold Protection Act of 2008," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, September 2008.
• Author, "DiPaolo v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: Classification of Freshwater Wetlands based upon the presence of Threatened or Endangered Species," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, August 2008.
• Author, "Permit Extension Act," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, July 2008.
• Author, "NJDEP Cannot Waive CAFRA Requirement in Absence of Waiver Provision," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, June 2008.
• Author, "E-Waste Recycling Law," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, May 2008.
• Author, "NJDEP's White Papers Stakeholder Process," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, April 2008.
• Author, "Deed Notices Required for Naturally Occurring Arsenic," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, March 2008.
• Author, "Environmental Stewardship Program," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, February 2008.
• Author, "2008 Climate Change Bill Package," Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Client Alert, January 2008.
• Co-Author, "Going Green by Building Green," Exhibit A, Winter 2008, Vol. 11 No. 3.
• Author, "Case Summary: Natural Resource Damages," New Jersey Defense, Volume 24, Issue 2.
• Author, "New Notification Requirements Onerous," New Jersey Law Journal, November 12, 2007.
• Author, "Updates from the Diversity Committee," New Jersey Defense, Volume 24 Issue 1.
• Author, "Strides in Diversity," New Jersey Defense, Volume 23, Issue 2.
• Author, "Individual Facts Dictate Contamination Coverage," New Jersey Law Journal, June 26, 2006.
• Author, "Who Is Responsible? Personal Liability of Corporate Officers," New Jersey Law Journal, October 24, 2005.
• Presenter, "Environmental Case Law Update," Annual New Jersey Defense Association Convention, Cooperstown, NY, June 2008.
• Presenter, "Environmental Case Law Update," Annual New Jersey Defense Association Convention, Cambridge, MD, June 2007.
• Presenter, "Challenges & Consideration for Solo Practitioners and Small Practices," Institute of Continuing Legal Education, March 2007.
• Presenter, "Professional Liabilities & Ethics,” Institute of Continuing Legal Education, April 2006.
• Presenter, "Women – Builders of Communities and Dreams,” Women in the Law Committee, Gloucester County Bar Association, March 2006.
• Frequent lecturer on the topic of diversity and women in the law.

Bar Admissions

• New Jersey, 1999
• United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1999