Leader of the Environmental Litigation Group (ELG) at Baron & Budd. ELG was started by Mr. Summy in 2002 and is comprised of 30 attorneys and support professionals who concentrate in large environmental litigation across the country. In 2020, 2023, and 2024, Law360 recognized ELG as one of its highly prestigious Practice Groups of the Year awards for the United States in the category of Environmental Law. In 2024, Law360 also recognized Mr. Summy as a “Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar.” In 2026, Mr. Summy was selected to the 2026 Lawdragon Hall of Fame.

Mr. Summy’s resume of cases reads like a Greatest Hits album for Environmental Litigation. It all started with a single phone call in August 1995 when Mr. Summy was a baby lawyer. He received a call from a prospective client in North Carolina who had learned that he and all of his neighbors had been drinking the chemical MTBE in their drinking water wells for years. After years of fighting and a trial, the case resulted in a record settlement.

Little did Mr. Summy know, but MTBE was contaminating drinking water wells all over America, and his case was the first! This led to Mr. Summy being hired by public water providers all over America whose wells were contaminated. This was just the start. This led to Mr. Summy becoming the “go to” lawyer for Public Entities facing environmental contamination impacting their public resources. Mr. Summy has represented Public Entities from the East Coast to the West Coast and everywhere in between. Mr. Summy and his ELG Team have achieved billions of dollars on behalf of their clients in Environmental Litigation.