Virginia E. Davis has been involved with environmental law issues for more than 20 years. She brings significant hands-on experience and valuable insight to the firm's Environmental Practice Group from former positions as counsel to the Natural Resources Council of Maine and the Maine State Housing Authority.

A key player in the licensing of most of the major development projects in Maine over the past two decades, she has provided extensive guidance and leadership to project licensing teams seeking permits for large and small projects under Federal, State and local statutes. She counsels clients regarding regulatory requirements and solutions, and assists with issues pertaining to legislative and regulatory advocacy and compliance.

Ginger has secured environmental permit approvals for major energy and transportation projects in the face of organized and vociferous opposition. She enjoys helping clients devise strategies for identifying and addressing environmental issues successfully and efficiently. A proponent of teamwork well before the concept became popular in management circles, Ginger works with clients and others to solve problems in ways that best serve clients' needs.

She has substantial experience with environmental audits and assessments, including preparation of environmental opinion letters for large, complex financings. For a major Maine financial institution she successfully developed management policies and procedures that allowed loan officers to determine whether a potential borrower was in compliance with environmental regulations. Her procedural outline became a model for other banks throughout Maine.

Ginger was recently selected by her peers for inclusion in Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America 2008 edition.

As counsel to the Maine State Housing Authority, Ginger was in charge of its legal affairs and oversaw its bond financings. As counsel to the Natural Resources Council of Maine, she oversaw legal initiatives, including court actions as well as legislative and administrative strategies.

Ginger has developed comprehensive experience with air, water and land use laws and has a special appreciation of the views held, and strategies used, by environmental public interest organizations. She is a regular speaker on environmental law at national and regional trade and business conferences, seminars and workshops, and is a member of the Kennebec County, Maine State and American Bar Associations. She currently serves as President of the Maine State Bar Association.

Born in Orange, New Jersey, Ginger graduated from Skidmore College and earned a master's degree at the University of Denver. She graduated cum laude from Seton Hall Law School in 1974, and served as clerk to Associate Justice Frederick W. Hall of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She joined Preti Flaherty in 1986.

She lives in South China with her husband, James C. Pitney, Jr., also an attorney with the firm, and their three children.

Admissions
New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; Maine; U.S. District Court, District of Maine; U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

Education
J.D., Seton Hall Law School, 1974 (Cum Laude)
M.A., Univeristy of Denver, 1971
B.A., Skidmore College, 1969