Rubin and Rudman Partner Glenn Wood Named to 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Environmental Lawyers

Rubin and Rudman is pleased to announce that Glenn A. Wood, Chair of the firm’s Environmental and Land Use Group, has been selected for inclusion in the 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Environmental Lawyers list. The guide recognizes “the enduring talent working across this critical practice area.”

Wood has represented major clients on environmental and land use matters for 40 years. With a practice focused on facility and project siting, wetlands and coastal permitting, enforcement defense and mitigation compliance, zoning and subdivision control, impact review and auditing, hazardous waste and real estate transactions, solid waste and health issues, regulatory takings, tax abatements, and environmental mediation, he manages a broad range of industrial, commercial, residential, and municipal projects through local, state and federal review processes.

Wood’s expertise spans environmental laws, regulations and policies, as well as constitutional issues. He also has significant experience in coastal permitting, development projects, coastal erosion and mitigation, waterfront development including dredging, and the permitting of water structures including piers and docks. Additionally, his work includes an active litigation practice in state and federal courts, as well as administrative litigation experience before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and adjudicatory appeals before the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

He has served on the DEP Land Subject to Coastal Storm Flowage Advisory Committee for eight years, is the Chairman of the Government Affairs Committee of the Association of Massachusetts Wetlands Scientists (and is the former President of the organization), and is a member of the Boston Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section (and former Co-Chair of the Environmental Litigation Committee). Wood is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Environmental Law and has been named to Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers List for Land Use/Environmental the past three years. He is also a member of Rubin and Rudman’s Executive Committee.

Wood received his B.S., with distinction, in natural resource conservation from University of Rhode Island, his J.D. from Vermont Law School, and his LL.M. in Environmental Law from George Washington University Law School.