Allie Gardner is the Senior Associate Attorney at the Conservation Law Center, where she works on CLC’s federal and state litigation and regulatory actions to protect land, water, and biodiversity across the Midwest.
Allie comes to CLC after 8 years in private practice as a litigator at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. In that role, she represented clients in commercial litigation in federal and state courts, with a focus on cases involving APA and constitutional claims, class actions, antitrust challenges, and complex regulatory issues. She managed all aspects of civil litigation, including early case assessment, pleadings, discovery, expert work, trial, and appeals. She also maintained a robust pro bono practice, spending nearly a year as a full-time “loaned associate” to the Legal Aid Society of DC representing low-income tenants in eviction proceedings. Other notable matters from her time in private practice include representing foreign aid contractors in a challenge to the USAID funding freeze and representing a death row inmate in a religious freedom case that was successful before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Allie is a Hoosier native and graduated magna cum laude from IU Maurer School of Law in 2017, where she was a student in the Conservation Law Clinic. Before law school, she studied political science at Butler University and worked at WFYI Public Media and the IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Allie is thrilled to return to CLC and Bloomington.
