Leigh supports clients in a diverse mix of environmental litigation and regulatory matters nationwide across industrial sectors.

Her representative experience includes work on land use and solid waste litigation, permit compliance, CERCLA allocation, and utility ratemaking.

Prior to joining B&D, Leigh attended the Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as Managing Editor of the Georgetown Environmental Law Review, Treasurer of the Environmental Law Society, and Political Chair of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. As a member of Georgetown’s moot court team, she finished as a semifinalist at the 2018 Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition.

During law school, she also externed at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. While externing at ELI, she assisted in the drafting of the UN Environment’s Environmental Rule of Law: First Global Report.

Before law school, she taught ninth grade Algebra I in Jackson, Mississippi as a 2014 Teach for America Corps Member.