Beveridge & Diamond PC, Environment

About

Provided by Beveridge & Diamond PC

Beveridge & Diamond's (B&D) more than 160 lawyers across the U.S. focus on environmental and natural resource law, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. Our work covers ESG, sustainability, energy, air and climate change, green marketing, environmental justice, waste, water, contaminated properties, products and chemicals regulation, white collar, internal investigations, and crisis response. We help clients around the world resolve critical environmental and sustainability issues relating to their products, facilities, and operations. Our team includes former in-house lawyers from leading U.S. corporations and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of State, and other federal and state resource and environmental agencies. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are core values at B&D. Here, we value the varied perspectives of our attorneys and believe that all of our attorneys should be empowered and equipped to succeed while delivering exceptional service to our clients.

Chambers Review

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Environment - New York

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Beveridge & Diamond PC is an environmental boutique with extensive expertise in core areas such as air and water quality as well as brownfield redevelopment. The firm is frequently engaged in regulatory compliance and environmental reviews for major power generation and transmission projects and is recommended for environmental risk review with regard to commercial and corporate transactions. Additionally, it attracts praise for its litigation experience concerning environmental liability, toxic torts and product liability. The department is noted for expertise in public infrastructure, energy, real estate, technology and chemicals.

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Work Highlights

Beveridge & Diamond PC represented the City and County of San Francisco in a review where the Supreme Court held that permitholders cannot be made responsible for the overall quality of waterbodies according to the Clean Water Act.

Strengths

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This department is top-notch in terms of the quality of legal representation provided. The attorneys are reasoned, practical and strenuous advocates for their clients. They provide excellent legal analysis on complex issues and their written work product is of a superior quality.

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The firm has an excellent track record of defending complex litigation. I would rate them as one of the best environmental and complex litigation defense firms in the country.

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The team has good subject matter experts who are very responsive.

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Beveridge & Diamond PC is incredibly helpful in navigating very complex and significant matters and the attorneys are the gold standard in terms of responsiveness.

Environment respondent
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The attorneys are extremely skilled litigators who are able to take matters to trial and to appeal.

Environment respondent
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The firm has an excellent track record of defending complex litigation. I would rate them as one of the best environmental and complex litigation defense firms in the country.

Environment respondent
USA

The team has good subject matter experts who are very responsive.

Environment respondent
USA

Beveridge & Diamond PC is incredibly helpful in navigating very complex and significant matters and the attorneys are the gold standard in terms of responsiveness.

Environment respondent
USA

The attorneys are extremely skilled litigators who are able to take matters to trial and to appeal.

Environment respondent
USA

Notable Practitioners

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John Paul

Band 2

John Paul is recognized for his representation of property owners and developers in contaminated site litigation and brownfield projects. He counsels clients on compliance and enforcement actions, including air emissions and hazardous waste proceedings.

John is an excellent attorney. His knowledge of the law and attention to detail are excellent.

John Paul is a Clean Air Act guru. He helps me understand complex litigation and regulatory frameworks and does a phenomenal job from both a litigation and regulatory perspective.

John Paul is thorough and has very good attention to detail.

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Michael Murphy

Band 2

Michael Murphy is noted for his environmental work on behalf of energy and waste projects. He handles permitting, compliance and contract negotiations.

Michael Murphy has been a real voice of reason given his breadth and depth of knowledge of environmental law.

Michael Murphy is a pleasure to work with and a brilliant attorney.

Michael Murphy is very knowledgeable and pleasant to deal with.

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Daniel Krainin

Band 3

Daniel Krainin has in-depth experience of toxic torts and contaminated site remediation and clean-up matters. He also has specialized knowledge of clean water matters and groundwater contamination.

Daniel is incredibly responsive and always finds the right person to help us. He is determined to make sure we get successful outcomes.

Daniel Krainin is hard-working and delivers a great product. He is a phenomenal lawyer.

Daniel is an outstanding litigator, especially when it comes to toxic tort litigation. He is super organized and very smart.

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Megan Brillault

Band 3

Megan Brillault is an experienced environmental and toxic tort lawyer. Ms Brillault's practice includes significant Superfund and contaminated site litigation and cost recovery for large corporate clients.

Megan is excellent. She is extremely responsive and has very good writing skills.

Megan Brillault is a good subject matter expert and is very responsive.

Megan Brillault is a litigator with great courtroom presence. She also writes really strong briefs.

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