Celeste A. Evangelisti - a Dallas, Texas (TX) Water Contamination Lawyer

Dallas Water Contamination Lawyer

Updated: 02/16/2026

Areas of Practice

Water Contamination
Enviromental

Attorney Information

Overview

Celeste Evangelisti is passionate about clean water-so much so that she has devoted the past several years of her career to representing individuals, municipalities, and water suppliers seeking clean-up costs for contamination damaging community water supplies. Hard-driving and tenacious, her legal prowess earned her the honor of being named a "Texas Super Lawyer" (Thompson Reuters, 2003-2005). She was also a member of the legal team representing Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) that were named "Attorneys of the Year" for Environmental Law in 2001 by California Lawyer (Daily Journal Corp.) for the resolution of a precedent-setting case requiring major oil companies to clean up more than 1,000 sites contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE.

A shareholder with Baron & Budd's water contamination litigation group, Celeste currently represents plaintiffs in several states across the country seeking redress for polluted drinking water supplies. She is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, its top rating. She is also a frequent speaker and presenter on legal topics concerning the prosecution of water contamination cases involving the gasoline additive MTBE and other contaminants of concern. Celeste also represented, pro bono, the family of a woman who perished during the 9/11 attacks in a claim for assistance from to the Victims Compensation Fund.

"The lengths some polluters will go to increase their profits at the expense of the well-being of entire communities never ceases to amaze me," she says. "It is ultimately very satisfying to bring these companies to justice and protect the environmental integrity of our water supplies."

Awards and Honors

Super Lawyers® Selectees

Celeste A. Evangelisti included in a Super Lawyers® list

Honors

Trial Lawyer of the Year Award (2006)
Texas Super Lawyer (Law & Politics magazine, Key Professional Media), 2003 - 2005
Daily Journal Corp.'s California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) Award for Environmental Law, 2001
AV-Rated by Martindale Hubbell Legal Directory

Other Sources of Feedback About Celeste A. Evangelisti

Included on the 2005 Texas Super Lawyers list

Past Lists

2004 Texas Super Lawyers list
2003 Texas Super Lawyers list

Education

Legal Education
- Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, 1995
  J.D.
Non Legal Education
- State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, 1992
  B.A.
  Major: Mathematics

Current Employment Position(s)

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Shareholder
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Classes and Seminars

"How to Work Up an MTBE Case – Documents and Depositions", MTBE Multi District Litigation PSC Group, March 15, 2005
"Pursuit of Damages by Municipal Water Providers and Private Well Owners", Mealey's MTBE & USTs Litigation Conference, December 6, 2004
"MTBE: The Plaintiffs’ Perspective", Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, July 29, 2004
"Perchlorate in Ground Water: Legal Implications", American Ground Water Trust, February 9, 2004
"Perchlorate: The Blast that Lasts", 11th Annual Region 9 Tribal EPA Conference, October 23, 2003
"Discovery Issues: What are your looking for? What are you going to find?", Mealey's MTBE and USTs Litigation Conference, November 4, 2002 - November 5, 2002
"MTBE: What the Public’s Representatives Should Know", Twelfth Annual Texas Environmental Superconference, August 2, 2000
"Update on Class Actions", Mealey's MTBE Conference, May 11, 2000 - May 12, 2000

Bar Admissions

Texas, 1995
California
New York
U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court Northern District of California
U.S. District Court Southern District of California
U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court Central District of California
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois

Other Affiliations

Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
New York Bar
State Bar of Texas
State Bar of California
American Association for Justice, Environmental Law Section
Public Justice Foundation
Dallas Bar Association
American Bar Association

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Dallas, TX

3102 Oak Lawn Avenue
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Dallas, TX 75219 - 4283

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