Jacob H. Zoghlin Selected Co-Chair of NYSBA Environmental & Energy Law Section’s Enforcement & Compliance Committee

We are pleased to announce that Jacob H. Zoghlin has been selected to serve as Co-Chair on the Enforcement & Compliance Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) Environmental & Energy Law Section.

In this role, Jacob will help to lead the Committee’s efforts to provide education, training, and thought leadership on environmental, energy, and related regulatory enforcement and compliance issues. The Committee closely monitors and analyzes significant developments in state and federal statutes and regulations, agency guidance and policies, judicial and administrative decisions, and emerging enforcement trends.

Jacob serves as Chair of Underberg & Kessler’s Environmental Law and Municipal Law practice groups and is a Partner in the firm’s Cannabis Law, Litigation and Real Estate & Finance practice groups. He counsels individuals, businesses, citizens’ groups, and municipalities on diverse environmental, land use, zoning, cannabis, energy, and municipal law matters.

Jacob is an active member of the NYSBA and the Monroe County Bar Association and writes regularly on a variety of legal issues. Within the NYSBA, he is a member of the Environmental & Energy Law Section, the Local & State Government Law Section, and the Cannabis Law Section. In the Cannabis Law Section, Jacob serves on the Executive Committee and has chaired the Local Government Committee since 2022. He is also a member of NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Developers Association, through its Upstate New York Chapter. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of Flower City Arts Center and a former Attorney Observer to the Board of Directors of the Senior Law Center. Jacob has received the Super Lawyers Rising Star Award every year since 2020 and was recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America in the 2024 and 2025 editions for his work in Environmental Law and Land Use & Zoning Law. Jacob was recently named to the Rochester Business Journal’s 2025 Power List for Environmental Leaders and in 2021 he received the Up and Coming Lawyers award in The Daily Record and Rochester Business Journal’s Legal Excellence Awards program.

Jacob graduated with a B.A. from Haverford College and earned his J.D., cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law.