Beveridge & Diamond's more than 130 lawyers in seven U.S. offices focus on environmental and natural resource law (including ESG, environmental justice, sustainability, and climate change), litigation and alternative dispute resolution (including toxic tort, white collar, enforcement, and internal investigations); 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 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of State, and other federal and state resource and environmental agencies.

B&D holds Tier 1 nationwide ratings for environmental law and environmental litigation from Best Lawyers®, Chambers USA Guide to the Legal Profession, and Legal 500. 

Best Lawyers® named B&D “Law Firm of the Year” for Environmental Law in 2024 and “Law Firm of the Year” for Environmental Litigation in 2023.  Vault has ranked B&D as the #1 law firm to work for in the area of Environmental Law annually since 2017. 

Our associates get substantive and front-line responsibility, working directly with the firm’s principals, clients, and technical consultants on unique and challenging environmental issues across the U.S. and globally. In the area of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), B&D also leads the way.  44% of our principals are women, and 52% of our lawyers are diverse (women, minorities, or openly LGBTQ+).  B&D is Mansfield 6.0 Plus Certified by the Diversity Lab, was named Bloomberg Law’s DE&I Framework in 2023, was named aa “Compass Award winner by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity in 2023, and received the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Vashon Award for Innovation in in 2022 and 2023 (the firm also holds MCCA Bronze Certification for DE&I.

Our Summer Program is the most important element of our recruiting efforts. We hire a small, but exceptional group of law students. We look for a high degree of initiative and the ability to take on substantial responsibility quickly. We expect to make an offer to every Summer Associate who performs well.