Luna Phillips
- Shareholder, Gunster
Biography
Luna Phillips is a Florida Bar board-certified Gunster shareholder who practices in the area of environmental, administrative and governmental law. She leads the firm’s Environmental practice.
Prior to joining the firm, Luna was a senior attorney for the South Florida Water Management District and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
Luna practices exclusively in the area of water and natural resources law before state and federal agencies. Her practice includes assisting large-scale developers, agricultural entities, public and private companies, as well as individuals in a wide range of water-related issues. Her experience ranges from water quality regulations such as TMDLs, to environmental resource permitting, to water use permitting, to sovereign state land and listed species approvals.
In addition, Luna actively works on Everglades-related restoration issues in south Florida involving complex restoration agreements with governmental entities and water quality and supply regulations. Luna provides more than two decades of experience in administrative law and litigation before the Division of Administrative Hearings (DOAH), as well as in rulemaking, public records and Sunshine law.
Honors include:
- Chambers & Partners, “Leaders in Their Field,” Environment,” 2014-21
- Leader of Gunster’s environmental law practice ranked “Band 1” by Chambers USA, 2017- 21
- South Florida Legal Guide, “Top Lawyer,” 2013
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Environmental Law, 2013-22
- Chambers & Partners, “Up and Coming,” Environment, 2012
- Florida Super Lawyers, 2021
- Florida Super Lawyers, “Rising Star”, 2009
- Florida Trend, “Legal Elite,” Environmental Law, 2006, 2019
- Recipient of the Winburn E. Stewart Tuition Scholarship Shar
