Environment
USA Guide 2024 : California
Band 4
Email address
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+1 415 262 4000About
Provided by Beveridge & Diamond PC
Beveridge & Diamond's (B&D) more than 140 lawyers in seven U.S. offices focus on environmental and natural resource law (including ESG, environmental justice, sustainability, energy, air and climate change, water, and contaminated properties), litigation and alternative dispute resolution (including white collar, internal investigations, and crisis response); and product and chemical regulation. 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, and inclusion are core values at B&D. 38% of our principals and 60% of our associates are women, and 52% of all lawyers are from historically-underrepresented populations. We are Mansfield 6.0-Plus certified by the Diversity Lab, having participated in the Mansfield Rule since the Mansfield 2.0 pilot, and in 2023, the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity recognized B&D as a Compass Award winner. B&D holds top-tier rankings for environmental law and litigation from legal directories and ranking services.
Chambers Review
Beveridge & Diamond PC is a national environmental boutique firm with a team based in San Francisco. Offers toxic tort litigation expertise and is also active on waste, air quality, Superfund and brownfield matters. Frequently represents clients from the industrial, transport and waste industries.
Work Highlights
- Beveridge & Diamond PC represented McLaren Health Care in tens of thousands of environmental class actions and individual personal injury and property damage claims originating from the Flint water crisis.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Very responsive and accommodating and sensitive to business issues and practicalities."
"Beveridge & Diamond is fantastic, able to scale its level of depth when talking to me and other attorneys versus when speaking to other non-legally acquainted people"
"Very responsive and accommodating and sensitive to business issues and practicalities."
"Beveridge & Diamond is fantastic, able to scale its level of depth when talking to me and other attorneys versus when speaking to other non-legally acquainted people"
Notable Practitioners
Gary Smith covers complex litigation on groundwater contamination and Superfund sites. He has notable expertise in wetlands issues, Proposition 65 work and environmental permitting for telecommunications systems.
"Gary Smith is experienced and calm with broad knowledge on how to handle claims and defend them."
"Gary is a seasoned pro who has the expertise needed and gravitas to deal with government officials, and is sensitive to the practical realities of the business."
"He's very concise, direct, efficient and handles things much faster and simpler than a lot of other attorneys. He's fabulous."