Education

• Notre Dame Law School, J. D., 1968
• Spring Hill College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1965

Admissions

• State Bar of Wisconsin
• State Bar of Illinois
• State Bar of Indiana

Representative Work

• While refinancing commercial real estate, a client learned of sub-surface contamination of its property from a neighboring industrial tank farm. Mr. Scripp helped the client confirm the neighbor’s commitment to clean up and persuaded the lender that remediation was feasible, could be assured and would benefit all parties, including the lender. Refinancing was approved and, without resorting to costly litigation, our client obtained compensation from the neighbor for excess interest and other damages resulting from the delay in financing.
• In the process of selling a distribution facility, our client learned that the facility had been impacted by chemical leaks from its neighbor’s operations. Its facility was practically unmarketable. Through negotiation and litigation preparedness, the neighbor was persuaded to purchase our client’s facility to save our client from loss without the costs and delay of litigation.
• In grading its waterfront property, our client was halted by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Notice of Violation for filling a wetland. Although the client had obtained all local zoning and development approvals, the Corps asserted that the divided property was in fact a regulated non-developable wetland, even though it was not so listed on any available map. Our client was faced with bad choices of either accepting the lots as non-buildable or incurring administrative delay and litigation expenses that would make even successful development uneconomic. Mr. Scripp recommended and worked with a hydrogeologist seasoned in wetlands field work to determine and delineate wetlands on the site and convince the Corps and local land use officials that the wetlands actually on site were sufficiently limited as to make each parcel developable.
• Mr. Scripp has successfully handled environmental concerns of major U.S. and multi-national business corporations, U.S. and Wisconsin small and closely held businesses and individuals and represented the environmental interests of Wisconsin local government entities.

Professional Associations

• State Bar of Wisconsin, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section and Environmental Section
• Illinois Bar Association
• Milwaukee Bar Association, Real Property Law Section and Environmental Law Section
• Federation of Environmental Technologists