Nil Ghosh is a land use and zoning attorney who represents landowners in front of elected and appointed boards for legislative and quasi-judicial approvals. He also helps his clients navigate the regulatory processes for development in municipalities across the state.

Accolades

• Best Lawyers: Land Use and Zoning Law (2024-2025), Real Estate Law (2020-2025)
• Super Lawyers Rising Star (2023-2024)

Representative Experience

• Negotiated the vested right of a nearly century old church to continue its use as a religious institution
• Assisted Habitat for Humanity in winning zoning approval for a new community
• Secures favorable code interpretations for various aspects of development projects
• Represents schools, industrial users, churches, and others to obtain special use permits
• Obtains variances for an array of project types
• Rezones projects of varying sizes for residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and mixed-use developments

Presentations & Publications

• Plan Accordingly: The Third Circuit Delivers a Knockout Punch with Equitable Mootness in Confirmed Chapter 11 Reorganizations in In Re Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC, 23 Norton J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 224 (2014). Cited by the Honorable Circuit Judge Ambro in In re Trib. Media Co., 799 F.3d 272 (3d Cir. 2015)

Education

• Villanova Law School, J.D. (2014)
  Law Review: Associate Editor
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.S., Business Administration (2009)
  Wade L. Cavin Scholar

Admissions

• North Carolina State Bar (2014)

Professional

• Durham City-County Planning Commission (2015–2018)
• Durham Central Park: Board of Directors (2017–present)
• Durham Industrial Facilities & Pollution Control Financing Authority: Vice Chairman (2019–present)
• Triangle Community Coalition: Board of Directors (2018–present)