Bridget is a Senior Attorney with The Zoghlin Group, PLLC, a boutique environmental, energy, land use, and municipal law firm in Rochester, New York. She focuses primarily on environmental, energy and land use litigation: representing individuals, businesses and community groups in New York State and Federal Courts and before various administrative bodies and municipal boards. Bridget’s experience also includes appellate practice.

Bridget is admitted to practice in New York, the United States District Courts of the Western and Northern Districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

A Rochester native, Bridget obtained her juris doctorate from Albany Law School and holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the State University of New York, University at Albany. She is also an alumna of Nazareth Academy.

Outside of the office, Bridget volunteers with the Rochester Teen Court as an attorney mediator and serves on the Empire State Development Finger Lakes Region’s Environmental Justice Task Force. In 2016, she was recognized by the Daily Record as an Up & Coming Attorney. In 2018, she was granted the Emerging bar Leader Award by the Monroe County Bar Association.

• Admissions
  • New York State
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Western District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
• Education
  • Bachelor of Arts in History, University at Albany, State University of New York
  • Juris Doctorate, Albany Law School
• Professional Associations
  • Board Member of the Foundation of the Monroe County Bar Association
  • Former Co-Chair of the Monroe County Bar Association Environmental Law Committee
  • Former Treasurer of the Monroe County Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Section
  • Member of the Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys
  • Member of the Monroe County, New York State, and American Bar Associations
  • Affiliate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Served on the Monroe County Bar Association’s Academy of Law
• Reported Cases
  • Chart v. Town of Parma, 2014 WL 4923166 (WDNY 2014)(Court found that pesticide contaminated topsoil relocated from a former apple orchard to town park was solid waste under RCRA).
  • Peelle v. Town of Irondequoit, 148 A.D.3d 1761 (4th Dep’t 2017) (Court found that whether owner’s action for inverse condemnation by Town via intermittent flooding by stormwater could not be resolved on motion to dismiss).
• Publications
  • Bridget O’Toole, Regulation of Pesticide Residue as Solid Waste under RCRA, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources: The Year in Review 2015 at 95 (2016).
• Seminars
  • 2018 NYSBA Basics of Environmental Law (Buffalo). Moderator and Local Program Chair.
  • 2018 Local Government Law from Start to Finish. Topic: “Navigating Nuisance Ordinance Legal Liabilities.”
  • 2017 Hot Water: Topics in Water Law. Topic: “Stormwater Management”
  • 2016 Albany Law School Hot Topics in Law – Rochester Edition. Topic: “Using Social Media Ethically.”
  • 2015 Learning from Environmental Horror Stories. Moderator: “Perils & Pitfalls of Environmental Practice.”
  • 2015 Environmental Law for Non-Environmental Lawyers. Topic: “What is SEQRA & Who Does What?”
• Blog Articles
  • May 28, 2019: So Your Property is Flooding, Now What?
  • September 19, 2019: 449 MW Wind Project Bull Run Energy LLC Planned for Clinton County, New York