Lewis, Longman & Walker

Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A. is a Florida law firm practising environmental and natural resources law, land use and real estate law, real estate development, transportation and infrastructure, legislative and governmental affairs, and administrative, civil and appellate litigation.

The firm was founded in 1994 in Tallahassee and West Palm Beach and has since added offices in Jacksonville, St. Petersburg and Tampa. It makes a point of the non-legal backgrounds on its bench — engineers, farmers, scientists and former government regulators — and of having worked inside the agencies whose local, state and federal rules its clients have to clear.

U.S. News has ranked the firm a Best Law Firm every year since those rankings began in 2010, with Tier 1 rankings in Environmental Law, Environmental Litigation and Natural Resources Law. Chambers and Partners places it in Band 1 for Environmental Law, one of only four Florida firms at that level, and Martindale-Hubbell lists it as a Top Ranked Law Firm.

The practice is Florida-only. The firm states that contacting it by email or through the website does not create an attorney-client relationship and that a written engagement agreement is required, so treat anything sent before that as non-confidential.