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Rashmin J. Asher
Senior Associate

Austin

512.840.4552

Maris Chambers
Senior Associate

Austin

512.575.6062

Eleanor D'Ambrosio
Partner

Austin

512.575.6059

Rashmin Asher focuses her practice on administrative law in the area of public utility regulation, and she has represented utilities and municipalities in proceedings before governmental and regulatory boards throughout Texas.

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Maris Chambers focuses her practice on water and wastewater utility service interests, including certificates of convenience and necessity, water rights, water supply, and water quality.

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Eleanor D’Ambrosio combines her policy and regulatory experience to provide clients with proactive and responsive counsel and advocacy in utility-related regulatory and business matters, helping them provide efficient and high quality service to the public.

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Taylor Denison
Associate

Austin

512.575.6077

Cody Faulk
Partner

Austin

512.840.4549

Darlene F. Ghavimi
Partner

Austin

512.575.6061

Taylor’s practice focuses on administrative law in the area of public utility regulation. She represents investor and municipally owned utility clients before the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Railroad Commission of Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the State Office of Administrative Hearings.

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Cody Faulk represents investor and municipally owned utility clients in both routine and complicated administrative, transactional, operational, and regulatory issues, helping them capitalize on financial benefits in operations while avoiding potential crises. He specifically focuses on regulatory and enforcement proceedings for municipalities, utilities, and landowners before the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Railroad Commission of Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and the State Office of Administrative Hearings, including providing consulting services to outside firms needing aid in navigating these regulatory agencies.

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Darlene Ghavimi represents clients in complex intellectual property litigation, including patent, copyright, and trademark matters. Backed by extensive first chair trial experience, she consistently achieves favorable outcomes in contentious intellectual property cases in federal courts across the U.S. and before the International Trade Commission.

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Wendy K. L. Harvel
Of Counsel

Austin

512.575.6101

Carlota (Coty) Hopinks-Baul
Of Counsel

Austin

512.840.4555

William E. (Bill) Hopkins
Partner

Austin, Houston

512.840.4554

Wendy Harvel represents water, gas, electric, and telecommunications utilities in complex regulatory proceedings before the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Railroad Commission of Texas. She has represented utilities in the private sector for several years, prior to which she was a Master Administrative Law Judge and head of the Public Utilities Team for the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings for nearly two decades.

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Carlota (Coty) Hopinks-Baul advises clients on a wide range of environmental, safety, and health issues including federal and state regulation of discharges to groundwater and surface waters, as well as drinking water, air, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, chemical releases, and workplace exposure matters.

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Bill Hopkins helps to protect health care providers and health care companies against the many potential pitfalls in the industry, serving as both an advocate and educator for his clients in administrative law, regulatory defense, compliance, and litigation. He ensures that the legal aspects of health care are covered, so his clients can maintain their focus where it matters most – providing health care.

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Evan D. Johnson
Partner

Austin

512.575.6075

Spencer Fane attorney Creighton McMurray

Creighton McMurray
Senior Associate

Austin

512.840.6079

Stewart N. Mesher
Partner

Austin

512.840.4553

Evan Johnson represents water, electric, gas, and telecommunications utilities in complex regulatory proceedings before the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Railroad Commission of Texas, drawing on more than a decade of focused industry experience to consistently achieve favorable outcomes. Most recently, he has developed an expansive water practice representing regulated water utilities in acquisition and rate change proceedings at the Public Utility Commission, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the Office of the Attorney General.

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Creighton McMurray focuses his practice on public utility regulation and administrative law.

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Stewart Mesher represents and counsels clients in litigation and transactions related to intellectual property, portfolio management, patents, copyrights, unfair competition, and Internet domain name rights, as well as for trademark prosecution and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings.

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Jennifer A. Riso
Partner

Austin, San Jose (Silicon Valley)

512.575.6057

Catherine J. Webking
Partner

Austin

512.575.6060

Jennifer Riso devises and implements effective strategies to obtain favorable outcomes in a cost-efficient manner for a wide range of legal matters for clients, providing them with business continuity and keeping them in the best position to minimize damages.

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Catherine Webking provides clients with detailed and thorough advocacy on utility-related regulatory matters involving electricity, telecommunications, water, and natural gas services. She thoroughly understands her clients’ businesses to help them navigate the regulatory landscape to maximize success. Catherine enjoys and excels at providing her clients with exceptional representation and advocacy at the Texas Legislature, agencies like Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Railroad Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M in Chemical Engineering is a pivotal asset for advocacy in the often-times complex utility markets.

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