Meet the Atlantic Yards Attorneys

You've probably read about Daniel Goldstein and Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn at some point, but who are the lawyers in the middle of the legal challenges to Atlantic Yards? The New York Law Journal has an informative profile of what DDDB calls its "grassroots" legal team. Here's an excerpt:

Under the leadership of Candace Carponter, a Manhattan solo practitioner who lives in Park Slope, some 30 of her neighbors/attorneys have formed the legal committee of Develop-Don't Destroy Brooklyn, the principal opposition group to Forest City Ratner's plan. The committee assists retained counsel in fighting the developer in federal and state courts...Funds for constitutional and environmental litigators hired at reduced rates by Develop-Don't Destroy were generated from bake sales and stoop sales, as well as walk-a-thon pledges and audience donations at screenings of an anti-Forest City Ratner documentary, "Brooklyn Matters." Matthew D. Brinckerhoff and Andrew G. Celli Jr. of Emery Celli Brinckherhoff represents the group in the federal matter; Jeffrey S. Baker of the Albany-based Young Sommer Ward Ritzenberg Baker & Moore in the state matter.

The whole article is definitely worth a read.