Raymond Ludwiszewski

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.

At EPA, Raymond served as General Counsel and, before that, as Assistant Administrator for Enforcement at EPA.  Earlier, Raymond held a number of senior positions at the United States Department of Justice —  first, he was Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division and, subsequently, as Associate Deputy Attorney General.

Raymond is a member of the Environmental Law Institute’s Board of Directors and a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.  He served for seven years on the seventeen-person Executive Committee responsible for managing the Firm. Raymond has been featured by Lawdragon as one of the Green 500:  Leaders in Environmental Law for 2024.  He has also been listed in Washingtonian magazine’s Best Environmental Lawyers List, the Washington Post magazine’s Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders:  USA, Who’s Who Legal Environment, 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.

Before joining the Justice Department, Raymond 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, Raymond was Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Northeastern University in Boston summa cum laude in 1981.