Printable FormatKristen Kelly Wilson
Senior Counsel
Ms. Wilson is senior counsel to the firm practicing with the Business and Commercial Litigation Practice Group, Municipalities and Quasi-Governmental Agencies Industry Team, and the Construction and Surety Law and Environmental Law Practice Groups. Ms. Wilson represents municipal clients in state and federal litigation focusing on Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, land use, environmental, and civil rights matters. She also represents corporate clients on contractual, property, and business litigation matters. Ms. Wilson serves as municipal counsel to the City of Rye and the Village of Dobbs Ferry and as special counsel to the City of Yonkers, the Yorktown Central School District, the Village of Airmont,and the Village of Upper Nyack.
Professional & Community Activities
Ms. Wilson is a member of the New York State Bar Association and its Environmental Law Section where she serves as co-chair of the Pollution Prevention Committee. She is also a member of the American Bar Association and Westchester Women’s Bar Association. She has authored the following articles: “Applying RLUIPA’s Land Use Provisions,” New York Law Journal, June 11, 2007; and “RLUIPA – What a Local Municipal Board Can and Cannot Do – A Case Study of Westchester Day School v. Village of Mamaroneck,” New York Zoning Law and Practice Report, Thomson/West, March/April 2008.
