Jeffrey D. Bausch
Associate, New Haven
Jeffrey D. Bausch Jr. practices in the areas of environmental law, workplace environmental health and safety, permitting and development, litigation, and administrative proceedings. Jeff is a pragmatic business lawyer who helps clients find solutions.
His environmental practice involves counseling private and public sector clients in the areas of regulatory compliance, transactional support, site assessment and remediation, and land use permitting. Jeff has been closely involved in the review and comment of the Connecticut Release Based Cleanup Regulations, which were promulgated in 2025 and facilitated the sunset of the Connecticut Transfer Act in March of 2026. Jeff currently serves as the Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Environmental Section.
Jeff’s environmental litigation practice involves prosecution or defense of cost recovery actions under State and Federal law. Jeff also assists clients in every stage of enforcement actions by governmental agencies. Jeff has also defended licensed environmental site professionals against professional negligence claims.
Jeff’s workplace environmental health and safety practice involves navigating OSHA and CONN-OSHA standards and representing clients involved in investigations and citation proceedings.
In 2020, Jeff was appointed as a Presidential Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Association and served a two-year term. In that role, Jeff served as a member of the Environmental Section's Executive Committee, ex officio.
Jeff received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Quinnipiac University School of Law. He received his B.A. in Political Science from Providence College with a focus in Public Administration.
- J.D., magna cum laude, Quinnipiac University School of Law, North Haven, CT 2019
- Judge Alan A. Nevas Book Award
- CATIC Foundation Award
- Distinguished Academic Achievement: Civil Procedure I (Fall 2016) and Federal Courts (Spring 2019)
- B.A., Political Science, Providence College, Providence, RI 2016
- Co-founder and Vice President – Providence Immigrant Rights Coalition
- Connecticut Bar Association
- Hartford County Bar Association
- State of Connecticut
- U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
- The Regulatory Vacuum: How Marijuana’s Schedule I Status Imperils Endangered Species in the Emerald Triangle, 26 Animal L. 125 (2020)
- Who Watches the Watchmen? Conservatorship Reform in Connecticut Misses the Mark, 32 Quinnipiac Prob. L.J. 277 (2019)