About  Kelly Pokrywa

Kelly-Ann Pokrywa is an associate at Gordon & Gordon with a focus on environmental litigation. She serves as special counsel to the Attorney General in cases involving damage to the State’s natural resources. In addition, she represents individual clients who have suffered physical injury or property damage as a result of environmental contamination. She also handles personal injury matters including traumatic brain injury, automobile negligence, and worker’s compensation.

Prior to joining Gordon & Gordon, Ms. Pokrywa served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Garry J. Furnari, J.S.C. in the Superior Court, Essex County, New Jersey, Civil Division. As a civil division law clerk, Ms. Pokrywa had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of cases involving such matters as personal injury, toxic tort, medical malpractice, the Law Against Discrimination (LAD), the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), automobile negligence, general negligence, insurance coverage disputes, contract law, collections practice, and the Tort Claims Act.

Kelly-Ann Pokrywa graduated cum laude from Pace University School of Law in 2004, earning certificates in Environmental and International Law. As a law student she was an intern for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), Air Enforcement Division. While an intern at USEPA, she handled cases involving self-reported violations of USEPA’s fuels regulations, and assisted in the prosecution of a case involving the illegal importation of methyl chloride into the United States. She was also selected to participate in Pace Law School’s Environmental Litigation Clinic, representing Waterkeeper Alliance, the administrative heart of river and baykeepers throughout the country, as well as other local nonprofit organizations.

As a student at Pace Law School, Ms. Pokrywa was a member of Environmental Law Society, the Public Interest Law Students Organization, and the American Bar Association. She is the author of an article entitled Kenya’s Legal Regime for Environmental Protection: A Time of Transition, which was published in Comparative Environmental Law and Regulation, Oceana Publications, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College in Claremont, California with a combined major in Environmental Studies/Biology.

She is presently a member of the Planning Board of the Borough of Leonia, and is the Chair of the Master Plan Reexamination Committee. She is a member of the Overpeck Preservation Committee, a nonprofit organization working to protect the Overpeck Preserve in the Borough of Leonia, and is a member of the New Jersey Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Bar Admissions

• New Jersey, 2004
• United States District Court - District of New Jersey, 2004
• New York, 2005