Mr. Hay is a member of the Boston Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association and American Bar Association. Mr. Hay is also involved with the Environmental Law Institute, Society of American Foresters and Penn State Forest Resources Alumni Board.
Prior to joining Goodwin, Mr. Hay was a construction and environmental associate at Fox Rothschild LLP in Pennsylvania.
While in Pennsylvania, Mr. Hay served on the Upper Uwchlan Township Planning Commission.
Mr. Hay was a summer law clerk for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.
While at Penn State, Derald was a Goddard Fellow and assisted in the creation of a habitat conservation bank, a program to streamline the administrative permitting process for real estate development on parcels with bog turtle habitat in southeastern Pennsylvania.