Raymond B. Ludwiszewski is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He joined the firm's Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Group after spending eight years in senior legal positions in the United States government dealing with environmental regulatory issues and litigation in the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department.
Between 1991 and 1993, Mr. Ludwiszewski served as General Counsel at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. Before assuming that position, he served as Assistant Administrator for Enforcement at EPA. Between 1985 and 1988, Mr. Ludwiszewski held a number of senior positions at the United States Department of Justice, with an emphasis in environmental litigation. From 1985 to 1987, he was Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division. Subsequently, Mr. Ludwiszewski was Associate Deputy Attorney General.
Mr. Ludwiszewski was a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He has written and spoken extensively on administrative law and environmental issues. Mr. Ludwiszewski was Vice Chairman of the National Environmental Enforcement Council and of the American Bar Association Committee on Environmental Crimes and Enforcement. He has been listed in Washingtonian magazine's Best Environmental Lawyers List, the Washington Post magazine's Best Lawyers in America, and Chambers USA. Mr. Ludwiszewski is also a founding member of the ELI's Environmental Law Reporter and the Press Advisory Board.
Before joining the Justice Department, Mr. Ludwiszewski was a judicial law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School in 1984, Mr. Ludwiszewski was Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Northeastern University in Boston summa cum laude in 1981.
