“I joined the Council of Partners because it was a tangible way to support ELI’s mission as an independent force for improving environmental law and environmental management in the United States and around the world. I support ELI because of its unique ability to assemble a variety of stakeholders with disparate backgrounds and interests to engage in the dialogue and analysis necessary to achieve that goal.”
Donald J. Patterson, Jr. is a member of Beveridge & Diamond’s Management Committee, and former co-chairman of the Firm’s Environmental Practice Group. In his twenty plus years in Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.’s Washington office, Don has represented industrial clients, including mining and mineral processing, automobile, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, developers, waste disposal companies, and non-profits in a wide range of environmental litigation, counseling and transactional matters. Principally, his practice has focused on federal and state RCRA matters and representation of his clients in remediation matters and associated negotiation and litigation under the range of federal and state regulatory and cleanup/restoration programs.
Don is a graduate of the College of William and Mary (with highest honors, 1979) and the University of Michigan Law School. He is admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, and numerous federal district and appellate courts across the country.
