Alex Votaw is a third-year associate and a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where she was Vice President of the Georgetown Environmental Law Society and a senior editor for the Georgetown Environmental Law Review. She has a background in climate adaptation and environmental justice in a local government context and she has an article published by the Georgetown Environmental Law Review about climate resilient affordable housing and gentrification. Since joining the firm in 2021, Alex has represented citizens, communities, and environmental organizations in a variety of cases including tree conservation, chemical contamination, special exception, variance, special laws/spot zoning, and easement cases, as well as lobbying efforts, throughout Maryland. Alex has advocated on behalf of her clients before bodies such as the Prince George’s County Planning Board, the Prince George’s County District Council, the Carroll County Commissioners, the St. Mary’s County Board of Appeals, the Anne Arundel County Board of Appeals, and the Circuit Courts of Maryland. Alex is a “Rising Star” in the area of Environmental Litigation, and is barred in both Maryland and Washington, D.C.