Warren Coleman

Warren Coleman is a leading voice in Vermont on environmental, energy, and natural resource regulatory issues. He has 17 years of experience representing clients before the Legislature and state agencies and earlier spent a decade in public service at the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. At Dinse, Warren also serves as Of Counsel, focusing on land use, permitting, regulatory, and administrative matters.

Outside of the State House, Warren provides strategic counseling to clients by working collaboratively with their teams to lead projects through Vermont’s complex regulatory processes. As an attorney and former General Counsel at ANR, he has a deep understanding of the substantive issues and challenges organizations and companies face in Vermont. He has a unique ability to facilitate communication among members of project teams and decision makers in state government, allowing clients to maximize the talents of their team, minimize delay, avoid the common project pitfalls and ensure clients have an effective voice in their interactions with state government. His expertise covers all areas of natural resource, environmental, and land use regulation and he has worked with a diverse array of Vermont’s largest manufacturers, commercial developers, transmission and distribution utilities and renewable energy companies, resort ski areas and recreational trail systems, and telecommunication companies.

Experience

Prior to launching Dinse Government Affairs and joining Dinse P.C. as Of Counsel, Warren was a partner at MMR, LLC and MMR Legal Services, LLC for seventeen years. During his decade at the Agency of Natural Resources, Warren served as an environmental litigation attorney, deputy general counsel, and general counsel. He began his legal career as an associate at Bingham Dana LLP in Boston, where he focused on corporate and business real estate transactions and environmental law.

Warren earned his J.D. and Master of Studies in Environmental Law, both cum laude, from Vermont Law School. He also holds a B.A. in Economics, with a minor in Business Administration, and a Master’s in Economics with a concentration in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Florida.