B&D Maintains Top-Tier Rankings in Latest Chambers and Partners Rankings
Chambers and Partners – USA ranked B&D’s environmental practice Band 1 in its 2026 edition.
Chambers ranked B&D as a leading environmental practice in every state where B&D has an office, and where Chambers produces environmental practice rankings. B&D's New York office was listed as Band 1 for the first time this year, and the Texas office also moved up a Band. Our California, Massachusetts, Washington, and Washington, DC offices maintained their rankings as leading environmental practices.
Chambers also again named our New York office a leading Insurance Coverage (Policyholder) practice. This practice works nationwide to advise on insurance issues and recover insurance proceeds for our clients in environmental and other matters.
Chambers refers to B&D as a “respected boutique focused exclusively on environmental law at all levels across the country,” and a firm that “provides multidisciplinary expertise across the group” and “represents a range of clients in matters from legislative advice and advocacy to clean air and water regulation and litigation.” They also note that B&D offers “particular capability in the pesticides and biotechnology space,” and noted B&D's "impressive client roster drawn from the pharmaceutical, chemical and retail industries, among others."
Clients and market observers praised B&D with comments such as:
- “Beveridge & Diamond has an exceptionally broad and deep team when necessary.”
- “Beveridge & Diamond PC is incredibly helpful in navigating very complex and significant matters, and the attorneys are the gold standard in terms of responsiveness.”
- “The firm showcased outstanding creativity and problem-solving skills.”
Chambers recognized the following B&D lawyers:
- Maddie Boyer (Principal, Austin)
- Megan Brillault (Principal, New York)
- Nessa Horewitch Coppinger (Principal, Washington, DC)
- John Cruden (Principal, Washington, DC)
- Loren Dunn (Principal, Seattle)
- Lisa Dyar (Principal, Austin)
- Morgan Gilhuly (Principal, San Francisco)
- Marc Goldstein (Firmwide Managing Principal, Boston)
- Jeanine Grachuk (Principal, Boston)
- Paul Hagen (Principal, Washington, DC)
- John Kazanjian (Principal, New York)
- Eric Klein (Principal, Boston)
- Dan Krainin (Office Managing Principal, New York)
- Laura LaValle (Principal, Austin)
- Michael Murphy (Principal, New York)
- John Paul (Principal, New York)
- Steve Richmond (Senior Counsel, Boston)
- Dylan Sanders (Of Counsel, Boston)
- Drew Silton (Principal, Washington, DC)
- Jimmy Slaughter (Principal, Washington, DC)
- Gary Smith (Senior Counsel, San Francisco)
- Allyn Stern (Office Managing Principal, Seattle)
- Josh Van Eaton (Office Managing Principal, Washington, DC)
- David Weber (Principal, Seattle)
View B&D's full rankings on the Chambers website.
