Madison Office
33 East Main Street Suite 900
Madison,
Wisconsin
53703
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Professional Experience
Matt Fortney practices in the areas of real estate law and environmental law. He is a member of the Firm’s Clean Energy, Climate Change, and Sustainability Group. Mr. Fortney’s recent experience includes:
- Represented clients in several zoning and land use cases, including securing zoning and land use approvals for a $200 million public/private bio-medical research facility.
- Performed zoning and land use due diligence for a lender underwriting the construction of a substantial wind farm in Wisconsin.
- Represented clients in several significant purchase and sales, including the sale of 120+ acre summer camp.
- Represented tenants in numerous commercial and single tenant industrial lease negotiations.
- Represented secured creditors in loan workouts and foreclosures.
Mr. Fortney specializes in “green buildings” and sustainability issues, having written and presented on the topic a number of times. He is a LEED ® Accredited Professional and prior to law, was a practicing construction engineer (two years) and environmental engineering (three years).
Education and Honors
- Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2006)
Order of the Coif. Northwestern University Law Review, Member, 2004-2005, and Business and Technology Editor,
2005-2006. Northwestern University School of Law National Trial Team, 2005-2006.
- Northwestern University (M.S., 2001)
Degree: Environmental Geotechnical Engineering.
- University of Texas at Arlington (B.S., 1997)
Degree: Civil Engineering.
Bar Admissions
Wisconsin,
2006
Professional and Civic Activities
- State Bar of Wisconsin (Member).
- Dane County Bar Association (Member).
- Ice Age Trail Alliance, Lane Conservation Committee (Member).
- Leadership Greater Madison 15 (Graduate, 2007-2008).
- Quarles Cares Initiative, Madison office (Co-chair, 2007-Present).
- Licensed Professional Engineer, Illinois.
Selected Presentations/Publications
- Speaker, “LEED Certification and US Green Building Council Overview,” ISBA 11th Annual Environmental Law Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 10, 2012.
- Speaker, “The Greener Side of Real Estate Development: Green Construction, Endangered Species and Wetlands,” Illinois State Bar Association Environmental Law Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 12, 2011.
- Speaker, “Green Issues,” Landlord-Tenant Law, Sterling Education Services, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 22, 2011.
- Speaker, “Green Building and Green Leases,” Landlord-Tenant Law, Sterling Education Services, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 3, 2010.
- Guest Lecturer, “Legal Issues Involved with Green Buildings,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering, CEE 491 – Legal Aspects of Engineering, Fall 2009 and Fall 2010.
- Author, “Green Buildings and the Revolutionary LEED 2009 Changes,” Milwaukee Bar Association Messenger, Four Installments - Winter 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009, and Fall 2009.
- Speaker, Emerging Legal Issues Involved with “Green Building” Teleconference, Mealey's Litigation Conferences, December 9, 2008.
- Comment, Devolving Control Over Mildly Contaminated Property: The Local Cleanup Program, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 1863 (2006).
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