The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Environmental Lawyers – The Green 500

We are delighted to share The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Environmental Lawyers – The Green 500.

As ever, we’re proud to publish this look at the lawyers who spend their lives helping address our world, whether on behalf of a corporation that delivers energy or develops homes, or an organization that fights for endangered species and to protect open land.

It’s a group that’s been in the news, of late. We hope this look at this particular time provides a gauge of the enduring talent working across this critical practice.

We selected this year’s honorees from our time-honed process of journalistic reporting, nominations and vetting with peers and experts in environmental law. We received more nominations than ever, and we appreciate those of you who took the time to contribute.

This is our fourth guide to the nation’s leading environmental lawyers, first published in 2021 as the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in Environmental & Energy Law and given its own platform in 2022. Lawyers who have been inducted into our Hall of Fame are denoted with an asterisk.

Unlike most of our guides, which almost exclusively recognize lawyers in private practice, this guide salutes leading minds in nonprofits as well as academia who contribute immeasurably to the debate over this place we call home.