LeAnne Burnett

LeAnne Burnett


Crowe & Dunlevy

Recognized since 2007

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Practice Areas

Energy Law

Environmental Law

Litigation - Environmental

Water Law

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2020 - Water Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2018 - Water Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2016 - Water Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2015 - Litigation - Environmental
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LeAnne Burnett serves as a director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. She is an experienced general litigation and trial lawyer who has focused her practice in energy and environmental litigation and regulation.

LeAnne has published numerous works related to her field of practice. She served as an editor and co-author for the Oklahoma Environmental Law Handbook published by the Oklahoma Bar Association. In addition, LeAnne has taught many environmental law seminars for the Oklahoma and Arkansas Bar Associations, the Sovereignty Symposium, the Oklahoma Brownfields Conference, the Lex Mundi Environmental Law Section and the Wind Energy class at the University of Oklahoma.

LeAnne is a founding member of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section and served as chair of that section. She has also been a member of the Robert J. Turner Inn of Court since 1998 and has served with Oklahoma Lawyers for Children since 2000 as a volunteer, board member and executive board member. For more than a decade, she sat on the Oklahoma County Bar Association’s Fee Grievance and Ethics Committee, most recently serving as committee chair. LeAnne has been listed in Best Lawyers (Energy Law, Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental and Water Law), named Best Lawyers 2016, 2018 and 2020 Lawyer of the Year for Water Law in Oklahoma City and ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA. In years past, she was named Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year for Environmental Litigation in Oklahoma City. LeAnne is an elected Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers and the Litigation Counsel of America.*

LeAnne was admitted to practice law in Oklahoma in 1989 after she received her Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law with honors. She is also admitted to practice in Arkansas and Kansas. LeAnne received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Methodist University in 1971.

*Crowe & Dunlevy has no input in the rating methodologies used by Best Lawyers or Chambers USA.

Location
  • Braniff Building, Suite 100
    324 North Robinson Avenue
    Oklahoma City, OK 73102
Education
  • University of Oklahoma, J.D., graduated 1989
Bar Admissions
  • Kansas, Kansas Bar Association
  • Oklahoma, Oklahoma Bar Association

Crowe & Dunlevy
Headquarters: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

74 The Best Lawyers in America® awards

12 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards

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Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2020 - Water Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2018 - Water Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2016 - Water Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2015 - Litigation - Environmental
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Water Law, Oklahoma City (2020)
  • Water Law, Oklahoma City (2018)
  • Water Law, Oklahoma City (2016)
  • Litigation - Environmental, Oklahoma City (2015)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers® in America 2023 for work in:
  • Energy Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Litigation - Environmental
  • Water Law
Special Focus:
  • Administrative/Regulatory
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Enforcement Defense
  • Environmental Cleanup
  • Insurance
  • Litigation
  • Solid Waste
  • Superfunds/Environmental Remediation
  • Waste
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Administrative / Regulatory Law
  • CleanTech Law
  • Energy Regulatory Law
  • Family Law
  • Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)

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