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Practice: Utilities
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.
Kaela Brennan’s governmental and general counsel practice addresses the full range of identifying and responding to potential risks, from proactive, preventive counsel to handling all aspects of dispute resolution, with an intentional focus on providing clients with legal outcomes that align with client objectives. Her diverse work specifically includes handling complex agreements and litigation, along with appellate procedures and experience serving as outside general counsel for government entities.
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.
Joseph “Joe” Dworak helps individuals and organizations on a wide range of matters while developing solutions that comply with rapidly evolving legal requirements in litigation, administrative actions, environmental matters, health law, and governmental affairs. Clients seek Joe’s advice as a result of his practical experience, creative problem-solving, and tenacity. He is passionate about advancing clients’ short- and long-term priorities and developing processes that promote compliance and risk mitigation.
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.
Eric Gere provides thoughtful and aggressive advocacy for his clients’ most complex and critical litigation matters, working to reach efficient and beneficial legal outcomes utilizing the full range of dispute resolution methods regardless of venue.
Angela currently serves a wide variety of clients in civil litigation and environmental matters. She practices utilities law, administrative law (primarily in water and oil and gas), and Native American law. She is dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for her clients, whether that be through non-legal solutions, mediation, or winning in court.
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.
Arnold Lee helps individuals and entities navigate complex matters through litigation and alternative dispute resolution, providing sound representation in state and federal courts and thoughtful guidance in mediation and arbitration. He skillfully employs comprehensive, client-centered strategies backed by decades of diverse experience and a full-service approach to casework, from intake to resolution.
Lisa Mayers is a local government attorney who handles municipal, special district, and real estate related matters. She provides general counsel to public entities, including advising on municipal bond financings.
Creighton McMurray focuses his practice on public utility regulation and administrative law.
Jessica Merrigan is a partner in the Kansas City and Overland Park offices of Spencer Fane. She counsels clients on environmental matters regarding regulatory requirements and represents them in litigation of environmental claims, including contribution claims under the federal Superfund law.
Karen D. Olson is an experienced regulatory, compliance, and litigation attorney that uses her significant government and private practice experience to represent her clients. She served as deputy attorney general for the State of Minnesota for more than a decade, where she represented the attorney general, governor, legislature, and state agencies and boards on complex and high-profile legal matters.
Kari Olson assists clients with administrative and regulatory matters throughout the state of New Mexico with an active focus on state and federal environmental law, public utility regulation, and western water law. Kari employs her diverse industry knowledge and acute attention to detail to navigate complex regulatory landscapes across multiple sectors.
Thomas represents public utilities and other clients with over four decades of experience in regulatory proceedings before the Public Regulation Commission and its two predecessor agencies, the Public Utility Commission and the State Corporation Commission.
Kelsey Parker’s practice focuses on energy and environmental law, primarily in the area of public utility regulation, where she represents utilities and municipalities in proceedings before governmental and regulatory boards throughout Texas. She helps clients navigate complex transactional, operational, and regulatory issues, developing practical solutions aligned to meet evolving regulations
Evan Singleton advises clients on all aspects of real estate transactions and development, from initial site acquisition through entitlements, land use permitting, and build-out. He negotiates and drafts purchase and sale agreements, easements, restrictive covenants, declarations and maintenance agreements, leases, financing documents, and construction contracts. His experience representing purchasers, sellers, developers, and utilities enables him to anticipate roadblocks and structure practical solutions to keep projects on track.
David Skawin helps clients prepare for, navigate, and resolve issues related to environmental laws and regulations, employing diverse experience in the public and private sectors to form practical solutions and mitigate potential risks.
Grace Taskinsoy provides efficient and effective legal counsel designed to help clients navigate their way through a diverse range of litigation matters, including commercial litigation and general business litigation.
Julia Vander Weele is an employee benefits attorney who also serves as Office Managing Partner of the Spencer Fane Kansas City office.
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.
Jeff has served as lead counsel on a wide spectrum of high stakes matters in the areas of water, environmental, natural resources, and public utility regulation. He has over 150 days of trial experience and has argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as courts across New Mexico and throughout the west. According to Chambers, Jeff is a “leader in the field” of environmental and natural resources who has “excellent trial skills.”
Randi Winter helps her clients achieve favorable litigation outcomes with respect to business, employment, and licensing disputes. She also represents clients in matters involving health law, labor law, and utility law. She is experienced in all facets of litigation and arbitration, but has particularly enjoyed helping clients, both large and small, obtain trial victories before judges and juries in federal and state court.