The Legal 500 recently announced its rankings of U.S. law firms for 2025. Beveridge & Diamond is featured as a top tier firm in the environmental regulatory law category for the eleventh consecutive year, a top tier firm in climate change litigation for a third year, and a leading firm in environmental litigation for the sixteenth consecutive year.
The editorial references B&D's successful litigation practice, which navigates high-stakes environmental and natural resources claims as well as civil and criminal enforcement mandates. With regard to B&D's top-tier regulatory practice, the editorial highlights B&D's cutting-edge contamination, ESG, circular economy, plastic waste, sustainability, and environmental justice work, as well as our water and compliance practice groups.
The editorial also features a portion of B&D's work over the past year, including:
- Serving as outside counsel to a major airline with respect to its compliance with federal and state environmental issues nationwide.
- Defending a major waste services company and certain subsidiaries in four putative class action lawsuits and 11 mass tort actions filed on behalf of 800 individual plaintiffs.
- Representing the world's largest producer of lead-acid batteries for automobiles in federal CERCLA litigation at a high-profile environmental justice site in California.
The Legal 500 does not rank lawyers individually. Instead, it focuses on assessing the overall strength and depth of practice groups. However, the publication named Principal John Cruden (Washington, DC) to its Hall of Fame for both environmental litigation and environmental regulatory law. Additionally, Principal Paul Hagen (Washington, DC) is featured as a Leading Lawyer for environmental regulatory law, and Associate Katrina Krebs (New York) received a Rising Star recognition for environmental litigation.
The Legal 500's editorials recognized the following B&D attorneys:
Regulatory
- Maddie Boyer (Principal, Austin)
- John Cruden (Principal, Washington, DC)
- Brook Detterman (Office Managing Principal, Boston)
- Paul Hagen (Principal, Washington, DC)
- Russ LaMotte (Principal, Washington, DC)
- Patrick Redmond (Of Counsel, Baltimore)
- Allyn Stern (Office Managing Principal, Seattle)
- David Weber (Principal, Seattle)
Litigation
- Amber Ahmed (Of Counsel, Austin)
- Maddie Boyer (Principal, Austin)
- John Cruden (Principal, Washington, DC)
- Taylor Ferrell (Of Counsel, Washington, DC)
- Daniel Krainin (Office Managing Principal, New York)
- Katrina Krebs (Senior Associate, New York)
- Lou Manzo (Principal, Washington, DC)
- Parker Moore (Principal, Washington, DC)
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