- Air Quality + Climate Change
- Contaminated Sites + Waste Management
- Environmental + Natural Resources
- Environmental Due Diligence
- Environmental Insurance Coverage
- Environmental Litigation + Enforcement Defense
- Environmental, Social + Governance (ESG)
- Natural Resources
- Transactions + Planning
- Water Quality + Water Resources
- Chair, executive committee member, Harvard Alumni Real Estate Board (2024-present)
- Executive committee member, Dallas Regional Chamber (2021-present)
- Board member, Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Texas
- Board member, University of Texas College of Fine Arts, Advisory Council
- Board member, Texas Appleseed (2007-present)
- Former board chair (2016-2018)
- Former member, Texas Supreme Court Task Force, Expanding Legal Services to the Poor (2006-2017)
- Former chair, State Bar of Texas Litigation Section (2008-2009)
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D.
- Northwestern University, B.A., with honors
Bar Admissions
- Texas
- Massachusetts
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Clerkships
- Hon. Sidney A. Fitzwater, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division
- Speaker, Fireside Chat Series, “When All Else Fails,” The Ohio State University for Real Estate: Fireside Chat Series, February 22, 2024.
- Speaker, “PFAS Impacts on CRE: Practical Tips for Navigating Environmental Due Diligence,” Environmental Risk Information Services Webinar, September 27, 2022.
- Speaker, “Texas Wetlands Conference,” January 20-21, 2022.
- Speaker, “Who Calls the Shots? Enforcement in the Midst of Federal Deregulation,” ABA Environmental Conference, October 8, 2020.
- Speaker, “Wetlands and Private Property: Regulatory Takings, Inverse Condemnation, and Flooding Issues,” Annual Texas Wetlands Conference, March 28, 2019.
- Co-author, “Keeping Track of the Trump Executive Actions,” Troutman Pepper Locke, February 13, 2025.
- Co-author, “Supreme Court Limits the Scope of ‘Waters of the U.S.’: What Developers Need to Know,” Locke Lord QuickStudy, May 31, 2023.
- Co-author, “Tale of Two States: Changes in Environmental Cleanup Regulations in Connecticut and New Jersey,” Locke Lord QuickStudy, July 29, 2021.