About the Firm
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David K C Butcher Law Chambers was founded by the Senior Managing Partner, Barrister David K C Butcher. The firm offers to its clients a level of expertise and standards of professional services of exceptional quality.

Our Mission

David KC Butcher Law Chamber is a top-tier environmental law firm committed to providing world-class environmental litigation, compliance, and transactional services to businesses, tailored by industry and personalized to each client’s needs.

Our Philosophy

We are recognized knowledge leaders in environmental law, adding value to our clients’ businesses through collaboration and teamwork. Our many years of experience are coupled with innovative thinking and business-focused problem solving to reach the best solutions for our clients. We remain on the cutting-edge of legal developments, taking the time to study, track, and anticipate changes in environmental regulations and precedent that could potentially impact our clients. In every matter that we handle we partner with our clients to minimize risks and advance our clients’ short and long-term objectives. Our style of practice is a model, which encourages a vigorous team spirit and accentuates the advantages of proficiency, rapidity, reliability, security, discreteness and honesty towards our clientele.

Our History

David KC Butcher Law Chamber was formed with the goal of building a world-class environmental law firm singularly focused on serving the needs of business clients. David KC Butcher, the firm’s founding partner, launched David KC Butcher Law Chamber to provide “Big Law” clients with skilled environmental counseling utilizing a flexible billing structure based on their individual situations and objectives. With offices located around the globe, our environmental lawyers are well-positioned to meet the diverse demands of global business clients. Our attorneys have substantial “Big Law” experience and have practiced environmental law at the highest levels throughout their careers.

Firm Culture

At David KC Butcher Law Chamber we pride ourselves on collaboration. We are a diverse group of professionals who operate collectively towards a single goal—providing our clients with top-tier legal service. Our attorneys use this same team approach when working with clients to find the right solutions for difficult issues. We believe that everyone plays an important role on our team as a hands-on contributor to the end goal. Similar to a start-up company, we enjoy an open culture. We support independent thought and encourage creativity because we believe this approach works to achieve the best possible results for our clients. The Firm is supported by a network of consultants and Law Firms at home and abroad to further enhance the effectiveness and high quality services. The unparalleled strength of the Firm’s practice areas are in the domains of International Consultancy, Business Law, Investment Opportunities & Advice, Intellectual Property Law, Mining, Oil & Gas Exploration and Exploitation, Banking & Finance, BG, SBLC, Taxation and Tax Avoidance, Insurance Law, Admiralty, Shipping, Marine Insurance and Aviation. As a boutique law firm, we recognize the need to go the extra mile to recognize, honor, and incorporate diversity into our firm culture. This is an educational process and, like most law firms, we are still early in our journey. Through strategic partnerships with like-minded local organizations, we are making great progress toward equality of opportunity and breaking down barriers faced by under-represented groups in environmental law.


Diversity

David KC Butcher Law Chamber prioritizes hiring, retaining, promoting, sponsoring and mentoring women, black, brown, and indigenous persons of color, LGBTQ individuals, and differently abled individuals. David KC Butcher Law Chamber LLP is committed to leveraging our resources in partnership with other organizations to amplify the voices of communities and individuals oppressed by racism, to better using environmental law as a vehicle for change that benefits communities of color, to promoting racial equity in the law, and to fighting racism in every way we can.


Sustainability

David KC Butcher Law Chamber recognizes that everyone’s actions impact the environment. It is our policy to act as a responsible citizen in all of our business decisions and actions. We are committed to using our best efforts to advance sustainable practices in our office environment.

Actions speak louder than words. We proudly:
Reduce and recycle waste;
Use green cleaning products;
Conserve energy and other resources;
Purchase recycled and sustainable products; and
Work in a LEED gold-certified office building.