Dan Slone is a partner in the Richmond office of the international law firm McGuireWoods LLP. He represents property owners and localities developing innovative new land use strategies for more sustainable developments and open spaces, and he counsels product manufacturers regarding the unique opportunities and impediments facing green products. Over the last decade, Dan has represented numerous national and international nonprofits such as the USGBC, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the World Green Building Council and EcoDistricts. He serves on the boards of several nonprofits, including the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Form-Based Codes Institute, and Bioregional North America (One Planet Communities). In 2008 Dan and co-author Doris Goldstein wrote A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects. In 2007 the ULI published Developing Sustainable Planned Communities, which includes Dan’s chapter, “Maintaining Sustainability.” In August 2009 the ABA released Green Building and Sustainable Development: The Practical Legal Guide, which contains a chapter Dan wrote. Dan has written chapters on energy and legal arrangements in a book on eco-industrial development and a chapter in a recent book entitled Sustainable and Resilient Communities. He has numerous other publications, and speaks internationally on urbanism, sustainability, resilience and adaptation.
