14 May 2026
Greenberg Traurig Adds Former New Jersey DEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette to New Jersey Environmental Practice
"Greenberg Traurig has hired Shawn M. LaTourette as a shareholder in its New Jersey office to join its Environmental Practice, focusing on environmental investigations, enforcement, permitting and litigation."
As NJDEP Commissioner (2021–2026), LaTourette directed a complex state environmental and natural resource management agency, oversaw a staff of 3,400 environmental professionals, enacted regulatory reforms on emerging environmental, health, and safety issues, and led enforcement and litigation strategies that recovered more than $3.5 billion in remediation funding and natural resource damages. He also chaired national infrastructure and sustainability initiatives and previously served at NJDEP as chief legal and regulatory affairs counsel and second-in-command beginning in 2018.
Prior to his government service, LaTourette was an environmental law and litigation partner at a Northeast regional law firm, representing private clients in the manufacturing, infrastructure, logistics, energy, real estate, and transportation sectors before state and federal regulatory agencies and courts. At Greenberg Traurig he joins as a shareholder in the New Jersey office and will represent clients in environmental investigations, civil enforcement actions, and litigation at the state and federal levels, while advising on permitting, development strategies, regulatory changes, internal environmental affairs, and commercial transactions with significant environmental considerations.