The Legal 500 again ranked Beveridge & Diamond as a top tier firm in the environmental regulatory law category, and as a leading firm in the environmental litigation category, in its 2020 United States edition.

The editorial references our role as court-appointed monitor in the Duke Energy coal ash cleanup, our defense of Siemens Industry in a jury trial and appeal against PCB contamination liability, and our defense of Chiquita Canyon Landfill, among others.

While The Legal 500 does not rank lawyers and focuses on assessing the overall strength and depth of practice groups, it highlighted John Cruden (Principal, Washington, DC) as a “leading lawyer” for both environmental litigation and regulatory law, and mentioned 16 additional B&D attorneys:

Regulatory

• Loren Dunn (Principal, Seattle)
• Paul Hagen (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Russ LaMotte (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Parker Moore (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Michael Murphy (Principal, New York)
• Steve Richmond (Principal, Boston)
• Kathy Szmuszkovicz (Managing Principal, Washington, DC)
• Ben Wilson (Chairman, Washington, DC)

Litigation

• Megan Brillault (Principal, New York)
• Nessa Coppinger (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Loren Dunn (Principal, Seattle)
• David Friedland (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Jeanine Grachuk (Principal, Boston)
• John Guttmann (Principal, Washington, DC)
• Michael Murphy (Principal, New York)
• Gary Smith (Principal, San Francisco)
• Susan Smith (Principal, San Francisco)
• Kathy Szmuszkovicz (Managing Principal, Washington, DC)
• Dave Weber (Principal, Seattle)
• Ben Wilson (Chairman, Washington, DC)

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