Bar/Professional Activity:

• Mr. Eglick is a member of the Washington, District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania Bars.  He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Western and Eastern Federal District Districts of Washington, the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, and several other federal jurisdictions.  He served as a Trustee of the Washington Bar Environmental and Land Use Law Section from 1984 to 1987.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Partial List: “Ethics for the Environmental and Land Use Practitioner,” King County Bar Association, 2010; “Ethics for Land Use: or, What Every Land Use Attorney Wished Their Ethics Professor Would Have Taught Them in Law School,” Law Seminars International, 2009; “Selected Issues:  Administrative Appeals and Judicial Review Under SEPA,” Law Seminars International, 2009; “Large Lot Development Patterns in Urban Areas: Is Anything Left of the “Bright Line?” Washington Bar Environmental and Land Use Law Section, 2008; “Environmental & Land Use Law: What You Need to Know For 2008,” King County Bar Association, 2007; “Urban Densities: What the Law Does and Does Not Require,” Law Seminars International, 2006; "Bright Line Fever: How I Learned to Stop Questioning Four Dwelling Units Per Acre and Love the Litowitz Test," Washington Association of Municipal Attorneys Conference, 2005; “Land Use and Zoning Law Litigation in Washington,” Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 2004 ; “Development in Resource Lands: Agricultural Lands v. Soccer Fields,” Law Seminars International, 2001; “Trying and Settling Land Use Cases,” The National Judicial College (course given to judges to enhance their familiarity with land use law), 1999; “The New Feudalism: Railroad Preemption of Local Government Land Use Regulation,” Oregon Law Institute, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, 1999;  “Shoreline Management Act,” Washington Bar Environmental and Land Use Law Section, 1998; “The Growth Management Act’s Public Participation Requirements,” Law Seminars International, 1997; “Shoreline Management Act,” Washington Bar Environmental and Land Use Law Section, 1997; “Subarea Plans: Can A Jurisdiction ‘Keep Two Sets of Books?’,” Law Seminars International, 1996;  “Summary of Key Growth Management Hearing Board Decisions Regarding Transportation and Capital Facilities Comprehensive Plan Elements,” Law Seminars International, 1995; “Standing to Maintain a Petition for Review Before Washington’s Growth Management Hearings Boards,” Washington Bar Environmental and Land Use Law Section, 1995; "Scoping the Subarea Plan: What's In/What's Out," King County Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, 1995; "Analysis of Capital Facilities vs. Transportation Elements Issues:  Cornerstone or Achilles Heel of County and City GMA Plans?," Law Seminars International, 1995; "Courts v. Land Use Regulation: Debunking the Myth of the Expansion of Environmental Rights," Third Annual Conference on the Growth Management Act, Continuing Legal Education International, 1992; "Legitimate Use of Interim Regulations and Moratoria with Emphasis on the Growth Management Act," Joint Conference of Washington State Association of County and Regional Planning Directors and City Planning Directors' Association, 1991; "The Myth of Mitigation Under NEPA and the Washington State Environmental Policy Act," by Peter Eglick and Henryk J. Hiller, presented at "NEPA at Twenty" conference, Lewis & Clark College, Northwestern School of Law, 1989, and published at 20 ENVTL. L. 773, 776 (1990).

Verdicts and Settlements:

•   Recent Outcomes:  Obtained a groundbreaking federal court decision under the National Historic Preservation Act invalidating the Federal Reserve Bank’s contract to sell its historic downtown Seattle headquarters building for demolition and redevelopment; per the statute, the Federal Reserve Bank reimbursed my client for $140,000.00 in attorney’s fees; Convinced the Seattle Hearing Examiner, in the face of a no holds barred legal and political campaign by the applicant supported by City staff, to recommend denial of a massive major institution twenty year expansion plan; as a result, the matter settled with limits on the institution’s expansion and with the institution’s reimbursement of $150,000.00 expense of proceeding to my client; Obtained rulings upholding client homeowner association’s covenants and bylaws and received a $250,000.00 attorney fee award, believed to be the largest attorney fee award to date under the Washington Homeowners Association Act; Successfully deployed Shoreline Act requirements to protect client Yacht Club key outstation from encroachment by proposed new dock, ensuring viability of outstation into the future.

Representative Clients:

• City of Auburn, City of Bothell, City of Covington, City of Enumclaw, City of Federal Way; City of Mercer Island, City of Olympia, City of Snohomish, City of Sumner, City of Woodinville, Airport Communities Coalition (Cities of Burien, Des Moines, Federal Way, Normandy Park, Tukwila, and the Highline School District), The Committee for the Preservation of the Seattle Federal Reserve Bank Building; Shelton School District, Bill Point Homeowners Association, Dugualla Community, Inc., Fragaria Landing Homeowners Association, Griffin Bay Preservation Committee, Innis Arden Club, Inc., Jensen Motor-Boat Company (Portage Bay), Laurelhurst Community Club, Lake Burien Shore Club, Seattle Floating Homes Association, Preserve Land for Agriculture Now (PLAN)/Puget Sound Farm Trust, Consumer Show Coalition Group, Marshall Building (Seattle), Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Meydenbauer Bay Yacht Club.