Overview

Matteo Crow is an environmental attorney with a focused practice in land use and environmental law. He has substantial experience advising on special use zoning matters, water quality, and navigating Oregon’s extended producer responsibility legislation. His legal work encompasses environmental litigation, land use planning and permitting, regulatory compliance, and enforcement actions. Matteo provides strategic counsel across a broad range of environmental issues, supporting clients in both the public and private sectors.

Matteo was a summer associate with Stoel Rives. While attending law school, he was law clerk in the Office of Administrative Law Judges of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; a law clerk in the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Indian Resources Section, of the U.S. Department of Justice; and an intern with the Civil Division of the Alaska Department of Law.

Before law school, Matteo was an environmental lobbyist with the Conservation Strategy Group, where he worked on legislation, budget policy, and coalition building for an array of public agencies, trade associations, and nonprofits.

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2024; articles development editor, American Criminal Law Review; member, Barristers’ Council Appellate Advocacy Division

University of Edinburgh, Master of Arts in Sustainable Development, 2017, first class honors

Admissions

Oregon

Experience

  • Represented a global leader in high-quality, complex metal castings for aerospace, energy, and industrial applications in litigation involving the mismanagement of waste by one of its contractors and other third-parties.
  • Represented a utility scale renewable energy developer in contested case litigation over the issuance of an EFSC site certificate.
  • Represented industrial clients in settlement negotiations in response to Oregon DEQ and city-led water quality enforcement actions.
  • Assisted with zoning enforcement defense and land use applications within several Oregon and Washington municipalities.
  • Provided compliance advice on all seven active EPR laws nationwide.

Insights

Recognition

  • Winner, 13th Annual WVU National Energy & Sustainability Moot Court Competition; Runner-up, best brief, 2023
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