Environmental law covers the rules that protect air, water, land, and natural resources, and the way those rules affect people, businesses, and governments. Matters often involve pollution and contamination, hazardous waste, land use and zoning, wetlands and waterfront development, energy projects, and environmental reviews required before certain public or private projects move forward. Attorneys may help with permits, compliance questions, enforcement actions by government agencies, cleanup responsibilities in real estate transactions, and disputes between neighbors, developers, or community groups.
Organizations in this directory that list environmental work include private law firms, solo practices, nonprofit advocacy groups, and government offices at the local and state level. Some represent property owners or companies, while others work on behalf of the public interest. When choosing counsel, ask about experience with matters similar to yours, such as the specific agency or type of project involved. You can also confirm that an attorney is registered and in good standing through the New York Attorney Search before you hire.
Firms and organizations listing Environmental
Listed because each organization describes this area on its own website. This is not a referral, a ranking or a certification of any attorney's specialty. Ordered by the number of attorneys in the New York registry who list the organization.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 1,028 attorneys Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 1,023 attorneys Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 982 attorneys Kirkland & Ellis LLP 930 attorneys Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 687 attorneys Office of the New York State Attorney General 650 attorneys New York City Law Department 614 attorneys Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 604 attorneys Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 553 attorneys Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP 549 attorneys Sidley Austin LLP 544 attorneys Kings County District Attorney's Office (Brooklyn District Attorney's Office) 431 attorneys Greenberg Traurig, LLP 381 attorneys Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 364 attorneys Goodwin Procter LLP 362 attorneys Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC 317 attorneys Mayer Brown LLP 309 attorneys Arnold & Porter 301 attorneys Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (US) LLP 301 attorneys Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 279 attorneys Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP 264 attorneys King & Spalding LLP 260 attorneys Barclay Damon LLP 234 attorneys Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP 232 attorneys Pryor Cashman LLP 215 attorneys Nixon Peabody LLP 206 attorneys Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC 204 attorneys Goldberg Segalla 203 attorneys Morrison & Foerster LLP 182 attorneys Alston & Bird LLP 167 attorneys Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 164 attorneys Kelley Drye & Warren LLP 163 attorneys Cullen and Dykman LLP 158 attorneys Seyfarth Shaw LLP 155 attorneys Troutman Pepper Locke LLP 153 attorneys Lippes Mathias LLP 144 attorneys Cozen O'Connor 143 attorneys Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP 143 attorneys Baker McKenzie 142 attorneys Lowenstein Sandler LLP 138 attorneys Herrick, Feinstein LLP 134 attorneys Harter Secrest & Emery LLP 129 attorneys Fox Rothschild LLP 126 attorneys Winston & Strawn LLP 126 attorneys ArentFox Schiff LLP 124 attorneys Vinson & Elkins LLP 120 attorneys Akerman LLP 119 attorneys Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP 118 attorneys Gallo Vitucci Klar LLP 116 attorneys Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP 113 attorneys Milber Makris Plousadis & Seiden, LLP 108 attorneys Windels Marx 106 attorneys Abrams Fensterman, LLP 104 attorneys Ashurst Perkins Coie 103 attorneys Selendy Gay PLLC 97 attorneys Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP 93 attorneys Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP 93 attorneys Office of the New York Attorney General 88 attorneys Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP 87 attorneys Columbia Law School 86 attorneys McLaughlin & Stern, LLP 85 attorneys Farrell Fritz, P.C. 83 attorneys Baker Botts L.L.P. 83 attorneys Kaufman Dolowich LLP 82 attorneys Foley Hoag LLP 76 attorneys New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 75 attorneys Morris Duffy Alonso Faley & Pitcoff 74 attorneys New York University School of Law 73 attorneys Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP 71 attorneys Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP (BCLP) 71 attorneys Brown Rudnick LLP 69 attorneys Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP 68 attorneys Garfunkel Wild, P.C. 68 attorneys Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. 67 attorneys Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP 66 attorneys McGuireWoods LLP 66 attorneys Foley & Lardner LLP 65 attorneys Pillinger Miller Tarallo, LLP 65 attorneys Rupp Pfalzgraf LLC 65 attorneys Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP 63 attorneys Hurwitz Fine P.C. 61 attorneys Chapman and Cutler LLP 60 attorneys Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP 59 attorneys Hancock Estabrook, LLP 58 attorneys Susman Godfrey L.L.P. 57 attorneys Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP 56 attorneys London Fischer LLP 56 attorneys Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. 55 attorneys Cole Schotz P.C. 55 attorneys Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP 54 attorneys Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP 52 attorneys Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP 51 attorneys Sullivan & Worcester LLP 51 attorneys U.S. Department of Justice 50 attorneys Ahmuty Demers & McManus LLP 49 attorneys Robinson+Cole 49 attorneys Wiggin and Dana LLP 46 attorneys Gerber Ciano Kelly Brady LLP 46 attorneys Squire Patton Boggs 45 attorneys NYC Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) 45 attorneys Goulston & Storrs 44 attorneys Norris McLaughlin, P.A. 42 attorneys McCarter & English, LLP 41 attorneys Phillips Nizer LLP 41 attorneys Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP 41 attorneys Ashurst Perkins Coie 40 attorneys Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP 40 attorneys New York City Law Department (Office of the Corporation Counsel) 40 attorneys Smith Mazure, P.C. 40 attorneys Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University 39 attorneys FBT Gibbons LLP 39 attorneys Albany Law School 39 attorneys Cuddy & Feder LLP 39 attorneys The City University of New York School of Law (CUNY School of Law, also styled CUNY Law) 38 attorneys New York University School of Law (NYU Law) 37 attorneys New York Power Authority 36 attorneys Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP 34 attorneys Alvarez & Marsal 33 attorneys Nicoletti Spinner Ryan Gulino Pinter LLP 33 attorneys Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP 32 attorneys Couch White, LLP 32 attorneys Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP 32 attorneys Keane & Beane, P.C. 32 attorneys TakeRoot Justice 31 attorneys Litchfield Cavo LLP 31 attorneys Earthjustice 31 attorneys Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. 30 attorneys Slater Slater Schulman LLP 30 attorneys Leech Tishman Robinson Brog 30 attorneys Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. 28 attorneys Saul Ewing LLP 28 attorneys Kenney Shelton Liptak Nowak LLP 28 attorneys Kiernan Trebach LLP 28 attorneys Gross Shuman P.C. 27 attorneys Peckar & Abramson, P.C. 27 attorneys Barry McTiernan & Moore LLC 27 attorneys Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP 26 attorneys Massumi + Consoli LLP 26 attorneys Cannon Heyman & Weiss, LLP 26 attorneys White and Williams LLP 25 attorneys NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) 24 attorneys Hall Booth Smith, P.C. 24 attorneys Russo & Gould LLP 24 attorneys Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford P.C. 24 attorneys Twomey, Latham, Shea, Kelley, Dubin & Quartararo LLP 24 attorneys Underberg & Kessler LLP 23 attorneys Nicoletti Hornig Namazi Eckert & Sheehan 23 attorneys Fleischner Potash LLP 23 attorneys Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC 23 attorneys Freehill Hogan & Mahar LLP 23 attorneys Rawle & Henderson, LLP 22 attorneys McCarthy Fingar, LLP 22 attorneys Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP 22 attorneys Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. 22 attorneys Duke, Holzman, Photiadis & Ritter LLP 22 attorneys Manning Gross + Massenburg LLP 21 attorneys Milberg, PLLC 21 attorneys Lee & Ko 21 attorneys U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 21 attorneys BraunHagey & Borden LLP 21 attorneys DiCello Levitt 21 attorneys Morrison Mahoney LLP 21 attorneys Smith, Sovik, Kendrick & Sugnet, P.C. 21 attorneys Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. 21 attorneys New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc. (NYLPI) 20 attorneys Webster Szanyi LLP 20 attorneys Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd. 20 attorneys Malapero Prisco & Klauber, LLP 20 attorneys Block, Longo, LaMarca & Brzezinski, P.C. 20 attorneys Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP 20 attorneys Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C. 20 attorneys Farber Brocks & Zane L.L.P. 20 attorneys Renzulli Law Firm, LLP 19 attorneys The Cook Group 19 attorneys DAC Beachcroft LLP 18 attorneys Young/Sommer LLC 18 attorneys Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, LLP 18 attorneys Mori Hamada & Matsumoto 18 attorneys Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP 18 attorneys FitzGerald Morris Baker Firth, P.C. 18 attorneys DOPF, P.C. 18 attorneys Hirschen Singer & Epstein LLP 18 attorneys Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC 17 attorneys Simmons Hanly Conroy 17 attorneys Connell Foley LLP 17 attorneys Winget, Spadafora & Schwartzberg, LLP 17 attorneys Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C. 17 attorneys Tyson & Mendes LLP 17 attorneys Wolf Popper LLP 17 attorneys Krez & Flores, LLP 17 attorneys McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP 17 attorneys gartner + bloom PC 16 attorneys Sahn Ward Braff Coschignano PLLC 16 attorneys Goetz Schenker Blee & Wiederhorn LLP 16 attorneys Napoli Shkolnik PLLC 16 attorneys Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. 16 attorneys J&G Law, LLP 16 attorneys Black Marjieh & Sanford LLP 16 attorneys Mandelbaum Barrett PC 16 attorneys Lemery Greisler LLC 16 attorneys Michelman & Robinson, LLP 15 attorneys Drake Loeb PLLC 15 attorneys Blustein, Shapiro, Frank & Barone, LLP 15 attorneys Monaco Cooper Lamme & Carr, PLLC 15 attorneys Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris & Willis, PLLC 15 attorneys McMahon, Martine & Gallagher, LLP 15 attorneys Zarin & Steinmetz 14 attorneys Potomac Law Group, PLLC 14 attorneys New York State Department of Transportation 14 attorneys Foster Garvey PC 14 attorneys Riker Danzig LLP 14 attorneys Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP 14 attorneys McCullough, Goldberger & Staudt, LLP 13 attorneys Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. 13 attorneys United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York 13 attorneys Trevett Cristo, P.C. 13 attorneys Sobel Pevzner, LLC. 13 attorneys Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP 13 attorneys Hill, Betts & Nash LLP 13 attorneys Vaslas Lepowsky & Hauss LLP 13 attorneys Stagg Wabnik Law Group 12 attorneys Bartlett, Pontiff, Stewart & Rhodes, P.C. 12 attorneys Hausfeld LLP 12 attorneys Marshall, Conway, Bradley & Gollub P.C. 12 attorneys Zhong Lun Law Firm 12 attorneys The City University of New York School of Law 12 attorneys New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) 12 attorneys Douglas & London, P.C. 12 attorneys Standard Industries 12 attorneys Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP 12 attorneys Stevens & Lee 12 attorneys Molod Spitz & DeSantis, P.C. 11 attorneys Snyder & Snyder, LLP 11 attorneys FisherBroyles, LLP 11 attorneys Stinson LLP 11 attorneys McPhillips, Fitzgerald & Cullum LLP 11 attorneys Colucci & Gallaher, P.C. 11 attorneys Cohen, LaBarbera & Landrigan, LLP 11 attorneys Hinckley Allen 11 attorneys Burke, Scolamiero & Hurd, LLP 10 attorneys Darrow AI 10 attorneys Kavinoky Cook, LLP 10 attorneys The Towne Law Firm, P.C. 10 attorneys BBC Law, LLP 10 attorneys Cerussi & Spring, P.C. 10 attorneys Berkman, Henoch, Peterson & Peddy, P.C. 10 attorneys The Lanier Law Firm 10 attorneys Cohen Vaughan LLP 9 attorneys Fitzpatrick, Hunt & Pagano, LLP 9 attorneys Newman Myers Kreines Harris, P.C. 9 attorneys Rosenberg Fortuna Filosa & Laitman, LLP 9 attorneys Esseks, Hefter, Angel, Di Talia & Pasca, LLP 9 attorneys Bennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg LLC 9 attorneys Boyd Richards Parker & Colonnelli, P.L. 8 attorneys Rider, Weiner & Frankel, P.C. 8 attorneys Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors 8 attorneys Knauf Shaw LLP 8 attorneys Scarinci Hollenbeck, LLC 8 attorneys New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) 8 attorneys Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP 8 attorneys West Group Law PLLC 8 attorneys U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 8 attorneys Rosenberg Calica Birney Liebman & Ross LLP 8 attorneys Coughlin Midlige & Garland LLP 8 attorneys Littleton Joyce Ughetta & Kelly LLP 8 attorneys O'Connor McGuinness Conte Doyle Oleson Watson & Loftus, LLP 8 attorneys Genova Burns LLC 8 attorneys Feldman Kieffer, LLP 8 attorneys United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York 8 attorneys Sayles & Evans 7 attorneys White & McSpedon, P.C. 7 attorneys Amato Law Group, PLLC 7 attorneys Wladis Law Firm 7 attorneys Yoon & Yang LLC 7 attorneys Hardin Kundla McKeon & Poletto, P.A. 7 attorneys Van DeWater & Van DeWater, LLP 7 attorneys A.Y. Strauss LLC 7 attorneys Malaby & Bradley, LLC 7 attorneys Shafer Partners LLP 7 attorneys Seeger Weiss LLP 7 attorneys City of Albany, New York, Office of the Corporation Counsel (Law Department) 7 attorneys Miller, Mannix, Schachner & Hafner, LLC 7 attorneys Read & Laniado, LLP 7 attorneys Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP 7 attorneys Marulli, Mannarino & Erichsen, LLP 7 attorneys Hartree Partners, LP 7 attorneys Roach, Lennon & Brown, PLLC 7 attorneys Wittels McInturff Palikovic 7 attorneys Marin/Goodman, LLP 7 attorneys Dreyer Boyajian LLP 6 attorneys Archer & Greiner, P.C. 6 attorneys Ontario County Attorney's Office 6 attorneys Weber Law Group LLP 6 attorneys Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law 6 attorneys Della Jacono & Ross PLLC 6 attorneys Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. 6 attorneys O'Hagan Meyer 6 attorneys Hodges Walsh & Burke, LLP 6 attorneys Cappelli Law Group, LLP 6 attorneys United States Army 6 attorneys Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. 6 attorneys The West Firm, PLLC 6 attorneys United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York 6 attorneys WSP USA Inc. 6 attorneys Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP 5 attorneys Environmental Defense Fund 5 attorneys New York City Law Department 5 attorneys Westfall Law PLLC 5 attorneys Germano & Cahill, P.C. 5 attorneys Bailey, Johnson & Peck, P.C. 5 attorneys Law Offices of Rodenhausen Chale & Polidoro LLP 5 attorneys Chaffin Luhana LLP 5 attorneys Kaplan Kirsch LLP 5 attorneys Maynard Nexsen PC 5 attorneys City of Buffalo Department of Law 5 attorneys Law Department (Department of Law), City of Buffalo 5 attorneys Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. 5 attorneys Foley Mansfield 5 attorneys Office of General Counsel (OGC), New York University 5 attorneys Jacobson & Schwartz, LLP 5 attorneys Federal Aviation Administration 5 attorneys Weinberg, Gross & Pergament LLP 5 attorneys Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 5 attorneys Methfessel & Werbel 5 attorneys DarrowEverett LLP 5 attorneys Motley Rice LLC 5 attorneys Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice 5 attorneys United States Postal Service 5 attorneys Sunshine, Isaacson & Hecht, LLP 5 attorneys Resnick & Louis, P.C. 5 attorneys Winstead PC 4 attorneys Vaughan McLean 4 attorneys Westchester County Department of Health 1 attorneysBefore you hire
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