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Raymond B. Ludwiszewski

Raymond
Ludwiszewski

Partner

CONTACT INFO

rludwiszewski@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 202.955.8665

FAX:+1 202.530.9562

Washington, D.C.

1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-5306 USA

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PRACTICE

Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Anti-Corruption & FCPA Crisis Management Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance White Collar Defense and Investigations

BIOGRAPHY

​Raymond B. Ludwiszewski is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He joined the firm’s Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice 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.

​Under EPA Administrator William Reilly, 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. Earlier, Mr. Ludwiszewski held a number of senior positions at the United States Department of Justice, with an emphasis in environmental litigation. First, he was Special Counsel to the Assistant  Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division. Subsequently, Mr. Ludwiszewski was Associate Deputy Attorney General.

Some significant matters he has handled include the defense of complex toxic tort “contaminated community” cases, the defense of important environmental civil enforcement cases; the successful challenge of major environmental regulations; the defense of large environmental criminal matters; and the prosecution of litigation against the United States.  Additionally, he has handled noteworthy Supreme Court litigation, including Nollan v. California Coastal Commission and First English Evangelical Church v. Los Angeles.

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.  In August 2009, he was also named as a finalist for the top Environmental lawyer in Washington by The Washington Business Journal. Mr. Ludwiszewski is a member of the Environmental Law Institute’s Board of Directors.  Additionally, he served for seven years on the seventeen-person Executive Committee responsible for managing the Firm.

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.

EDUCATION

Harvard University - 1984 Juris Doctor

Northeastern University - 1981 Master of Arts

Northeastern University - 1981 Bachelor of Science

ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia Bar

Massachusetts Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - February 7, 2023 | Eight Gibson Dunn Attorneys Named in 2023 Lawdragon Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law
Firm News - January 9, 2023 | Who’s Who Legal Recognizes 39 Gibson Dunn Partners in its Inaugural Thought Leaders USA Guide
Firm News - September 7, 2022 | Four Gibson Dunn Partners Recognized by Who’s Who Legal 2022 Environment
Firm News - June 1, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Earns 101 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2022
Firm News - September 30, 2021 | Two Who’s Who Legal 2021 Guides Recognize Five Gibson Dunn Partners
Firm News - May 20, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Earns 94 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2021
Client Alert - April 27, 2021 | EPA and NHTSA Seek Public Comment on Reconsideration of Prior Actions Concerning California’s Authority to Enforce Greenhouse Gas Standards and Mandate Zero Emission Vehicles
Webcasts - March 23, 2021 | Webcast: Biden’s EPA: The First 60 Days and Beyond
Firm News - March 19, 2021 | Four Partners Named Among the 2021 Lawdragon 500 Leading Environmental & Energy Lawyers
Client Alert - October 14, 2020 | California Air Resources Board Urges Self-Disclosure of Non-Compliant Software and Regulatory Violations by December 31, 2020
Firm News - April 24, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Earns 84 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2020
Client Alert - March 31, 2020 | EPA and NHTSA Finalize New Standards for Automobile Fuel Economy and GHG Emissions
Firm News - November 6, 2019 | Who’s Who Legal Practice Guides Recognize Six Gibson Dunn Attorneys in Capital Markets, Government Contracts, and Environment in 2019
Firm News - August 15, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Lawyers Recognized in the Best Lawyers in America® 2020
Client Alert - August 2, 2018 | EPA & NHTSA Issue SAFE Vehicles Rule, Proposing Changes to Vehicle GHG Limits and Revocation of California Waiver
Article - February 23, 2018 | EPA In The Trump Era: The DOJ’s 3rd-Party Payment Policy
Article - May 13, 2015 | Tracking The DC Circ.’s Trend On Article III Standing
Article - April 24, 2015 | Standing Up for Industry Standing in Environmental Regulatory Challenges
Client Alert - December 29, 2014 | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Issues Final Regulations Addressing Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities Under Subtitle D of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Client Alert - June 24, 2014 | U.S. Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Stationary Source Permitting Requirements under Clean Air Act
Client Alert - June 4, 2014 | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Proposes Regulations to Limit Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Existing Electric Utility Generating Units
Client Alert - May 1, 2014 | U.S. Supreme Court Resurrects EPA’s Transport Rule in EME Homer City Generation Decision
Client Alert - November 1, 2013 | The Environmental Protection Agency’s Suspension and Debarment Program
Client Alert - October 16, 2013 | U.S. Supreme Court to Address the Scope of Stationary Source Permitting Requirements in Review of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Article - August 1, 2013 | A Comment on The Limits of Liability in Promoting Safe Geologic Sequestration of CO2
Article - August 1, 2011 | Byproducts of Restricting EPA Authority
Client Alert - June 22, 2011 | Environmental News: Climate Change – June 2011
Client Alert - May 17, 2010 | Environmental News: Climate Change – May 2010
Client Alert - February 10, 2010 | The “Glorious Mess” Comes to Court
Client Alert - December 8, 2009 | Environmental News: Climate Change – December 2009
Client Alert - October 28, 2009 | Environmental News: Climate Change – November 2009
Client Alert - September 3, 2009 | Environmental News: Climate Change – September 2009
Client Alert - August 31, 2009 | Comment on Developing a Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change Mitigation Policy in the United States: Integrating Levels of Government and Economic Sectors
Client Alert - June 1, 2009 | Climate Change: A Heat Wave of New Federal Regulation and Legislation
Client Alert - May 5, 2009 | Environmental News: Climate Change – May 2009
Client Alert - April 20, 2009 | EPA Proposes Finding That Greenhouse Gases Endanger the Public Health and Welfare
Client Alert - March 27, 2009 | Environmental News: Climate Change – March 2009
Client Alert - September 16, 2008 | Regulating Greenhouse Gases Emissions
Client Alert - September 15, 2008 | EPA’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Concerning the Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act
Client Alert - August 31, 2008 | Comment on Basic Compensation for Victims of Climate Change
Client Alert - June 11, 2007 | Supreme Court Holds in United States v. Atlantic Research That Potentially Responsible Parties Have a Cost Recovery Cause of Action Under Section 107(a)(4)(B) of CERCLA
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