About
Ira Kaplan’s clients include landowners, local land trusts and land conservation organizations. In all cases, the goal of land conservation transactions is to achieve a permanent conservation agreement that serves the parties’ interests while assuring the protection of important natural resources. Mr. Kaplan’s litigation background helps him to develop conservation restrictions that are resistant to legal challenge.
Before starting his own practice, Mr. Kaplan worked as an associate with Stavisky & Kelly, LLC. His prior experience includes working as a land protection specialist for The Trustees of Reservations, as an Assistant District Attorney in Berkshire County and as a consultant to the General Electric Company.
Mr. Kaplan received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Connecticut School Of Law in 1997 and his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1994. His publications include “They Can’t Take That Away From Me: Protecting Free Trade in Public Images from Right of Publicity Claims”18 Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal 37 (1997).