Patricia Thrower Barmeyer is a partner in King & Spalding’s Atlanta office and the head of the firm’s Environmental Practice Group. She joined the firm in 1990 after serving 17 years as an assistant attorney general for the State of Georgia. At King & Spalding Ms. Barmeyer has concentrated her practice in environmental litigation in the areas of water, waste, and air, as well as the defense of major environmental tort cases. Since 2006 Chambers USA Leading Lawyers for Business has ranked Ms. Barmeyer as a “Star Individual,” and the top environmental lawyer in Georgia. Chambers 2009 describes her as “a brilliantly connected superstar with a truly outstanding environmental practice.” Chambers 2008 noted her “levelheaded, fact-oriented, logical” approach and “forceful but civil” style. Ms. Barmeyer was recently named Best Lawyers’ 2010 Atlanta Environmental Lawyer of the Year. Ms. Barmeyer’s expertise combines a detailed knowledge of environmental law with courtroom experience in environmental cases.

• State Bar of Georgia; Atlanta Bar Association; Lawyers Club of Atlanta; American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources
  
  
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
  
  
• Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers, Advisory Board
  
  
• Georgia Legal Services Foundation Board, 2008 and 2009

Awards & Recognition

• The number one environmental lawyer in Georgia in Chambers Leading Lawyers for Business 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. Also ranked by Chambers as a “Star Individual,” reserved for those whose profiles are “far ahead of the pack.”
  
  
• Best Lawyers’ 2010 Atlanta Environmental Lawyer of the Year
  
  
• American College of Environmental Lawyers
  
  
• The Best Lawyers in America for more than ten years
  
  
• Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers
  
  
• Member of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
  
  
• Georgia Super Lawyer; Top 50 Georgia Women Super Lawyers
  
  
• Georgia Trend “100 Most Influential Georgians” list in 2003