Beveridge & Diamond is proud to announce that 21 attorneys were named to the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, a BL Rankings service, in the fields of Environmental Law, Environmental Litigation, Land Use & Zoning Law, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, and Mass Tort Litigation.

Environmental Law

The attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers for Environmental Law include:

• Maddie Boyer (Principal, Austin)
• Eric Christensen (Of Counsel, Seattle)
• Loren Dunn (Principal, Seattle)
• Mark Duvall (Principal, Washington, DC)
• David Friedland (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Marc Goldstein (Principal, Boston)
• Steve Gordon (Principal, New York)
• Paul Hagen (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Pam Marks (Principal, Baltimore)
• Bryan Moore (Principal, Austin)
• Mike Murphy (Principal, New York)
• Steve Richmond (Principal, Boston)
• Gary Smith (Principal, San Francisco)
• Ben Wilson (Principal, Washington, DC)

Environmental Litigation

The attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers for Environmental Litigation include:

• Nessa Coppinger (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Loren Dunn (Principal, Seattle)
• David Friedland (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Marc Goldstein (Principal, Boston)
• John Guttmann (Principal, Washington, DC)
• John Hanson (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Gary Smith (Principal, San Francisco)
• Tim Sullivan (Principal, Baltimore)
• Kathy Szmuszkovicz (Principal, Washington, DC)

Best Lawyers also recognized Principals Brian Levey (Boston) for Land Use & Zoning Law, Ben Wilson (Washington, DC) for Arbitration, Rob Brager (Baltimore) for Commercial Litigation, and John Guttmann (Washington, DC) for Mass Tort Litigation. John also was recognized as 2020's "Lawyer of the Year" for Mass Tort Litigation in Washington, DC.

First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive annual peer-review survey. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."