Environmental Law
Hold your ground under pressure
Lead when regulatory exposure and legal consequences put your project to the test.
Environmental risk draws a hard line between what proceeds and what stops. It shapes approvals, schedules, financing, and public confidence, often under escalating regulatory attention and heightened political accountability. At this level, results hinge on who is trusted to lead, who carries weight in the room, and whose judgment and experience hold under sustained scrutiny.
That’s why you can count on Canada’s largest environmental law practice with unmatched experience across complex, nation-building initiatives and multi-year mandates, and a long history of shaping environmental law across the country. Our focus is where the stakes are highest: regulation and litigation. When enforcement turns adversarial, you gain sharp perspective, battle-tested strategy, and determined advocacy that protects your position, keeps projects moving, and commands respect before regulators, tribunals, and courts.
Where the hardest environmental calls are made
Our environmental practice reflects decades of deep focus on the issues that determine how projects proceed and how disputes unfold. It is shaped by sustained involvement at the centre of environmental decision-making in Canada.
Here’s what sets us apart:
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Proven advocates in the most demanding cases of environmental litigation: When environmental issues reach a critical stage, legal leadership under pressure makes the difference. We are relied on to take control of Canada’s most consequential disputes, including complex prosecutions, regulatory appeals, judicial reviews, and parallel civil proceedings. Our track record spans trial courts, appellate courts, and specialized tribunals, delivering advocacy that is strategic, disciplined, and built to withstand prolonged, hard-fought challenges.
Authoritative insight that determines environmental outcomes: Among the first national law firms to establish a dedicated environmental law practice, we have played a decisive role in shaping how this area of law operates in practice, not just how it is written. This vantage point provides our clients with clear, decisive guidance in high-pressure, disputed environments from counsel who anticipate regulatory moves, master adjudicative reasoning, and steer enforcement dynamics while keeping commercial priorities firmly in focus.
Unmatched legal and technical depth: Our team integrates environmental law with land-use planning, municipal law, and Indigenous law in a way few others can, allowing approvals, consultation obligations, and risk to be controlled through a single, coordinated strategy. This is reinforced by deep technical expertise in areas such as water management, brownfield redevelopment, waste management, and other highly specialized regulatory regimes, delivering advice that stands up under technical, regulatory, and legal scrutiny.
Sector command where environmental risk is business-critical: Our advice is grounded in a deep understanding of the sectors where environmental exposure carries immediate and lasting consequences. With experience across construction, real estate development, infrastructure, energy, oil and gas, nuclear, and natural resources, we understand how environmental issues intersect with delivery, financing, governance, and operations. This industry-specific fluency supports commercially practical advice where there is no room for error.
“When environmental matters reach their hardest moments, you need a firm with the experience and standing to take control. That level of capability is built over time, and it is what we bring to every file.”
— Maya Stano, Leader, Environmental Law Practice Group
Built to handle environmental complexity at any scale
Environmental considerations affect your projects and operations in real-time. Access pragmatic and efficient legal expertise across the full environmental law spectrum, from compliance and approvals to disputes and enforcement. Explore our services:
Regulatory compliance & approvals
Meet your obligations and secure key approvals under provincial and federal environmental legislation, including environmental assessments, permitting, and licensing. We guide you through impact assessments, authorization processes, and regulatory and administrative hearings (such as before the AUC, BCUC, EAB, and EPTC) with advice grounded in how regulators apply and enforce requirements in practice.
