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Rashmin J. Asher
Senior Associate

Austin

512.840.4552

Johnny G. Beech
Of Counsel

Oklahoma City

405.844.9900

Andrew C. (Drew) Brought
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8886

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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Johnny Beech has more than 30 years of experience as a litigator focusing on contracts, financial services matters, and trust issues.

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Andrew Brought counsels manufacturers, industrial clients, and businesses with complex environmental (EPA) and workplace safety (OSHA) challenges. A dependable and responsive advocate, he offers pragmatic and business-focused solutions to help his clients achieve their goals.

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Maris Chambers
Senior Associate

Austin

512.575.6062

Eleanor D'Ambrosio
Partner

Austin

512.575.6059

Taylor Denison
Associate

Austin

512.575.6077

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’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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Patrice Douglas
Of Counsel

Oklahoma City

405.844.9900

Thomas D. (Tom) Driggs
Of Counsel

Las Vegas

702.851.6510

Joseph M. (Joe) Dworak
Of Counsel

Santa Fe

505.986.2653

Patrice Douglas counsels banks, energy companies and utilities on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. She helps clients navigate the complex regulatory issues they face in today’s economy so they can close transactions efficiently and move forward to realize their goals.

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Tom Driggs advises clients in the areas of water transactions and regulation, real estate and corporate transactions, and related government relations issues in Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. His clients include farmers, ranchers, dairies, hotel casinos, power companies, mining and industrial companies, golf course owners, real estate developers, individual homeowners, and a multinational resource-efficient agricultural producer working to grow blueberries in the Nevada desert.

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Joseph “Joe” Dworak advises individuals, organizations, and governments on a wide range of regulatory matters, developing practical solutions that comply with rapidly evolving legal requirements and advance clients’ short- and long-term priorities in the areas of litigation, environmental and energy law, and governmental affairs.

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Cody Faulk
Partner

Austin

512.840.4549

Jane E. Fedder
Of Counsel

St. Louis

314.333.3924

Anthony J. (A.J.) Ferate
Of Counsel

Oklahoma City, Houston

405.753.5939 / 713.212.2615

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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Jane Fedder is a proven and trusted advocate, advisor, strategist, trial, and appellate attorney specializing in resolving complex environmental enforcement, litigation, and insurance recovery disputes.

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Anthony J. (A.J.) Ferate has built a multi-faceted background in the areas of the law, policy, energy, campaigns and elections, and defense for more than 20 years.

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Wendy K. L. Harvel
Of Counsel

Austin

512.575.6101

Edward (Ed) Herman
Of Counsel

Dallas, Plano

214.750.3685

Carlota (Coty) Hopinks-Baul
Of Counsel

Austin

512.840.4555

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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Ed Herman helps clients purchase and sell improved and unimproved real property, as well as existing businesses. In addition, Ed assists his clients in addressing the day-to-day transactional issues that arise during the operation of their businesses. Ed currently represents numerous child care franchisees who have purchased and constructed new facilities in Texas.

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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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Paul Jacobson
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8314

Evan D. Johnson
Partner

Austin

512.575.6075

Spencer Fane attorney Creighton McMurray

Creighton McMurray
Senior Associate

Austin

512.840.6079

Paul guides businesses through their environmental and workplace safety legal challenges involving the EPA, OSHA, state environmental and workplace safety agencies, and private third parties.

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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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Jessica Merrigan
Partner

Kansas City, Overland Park

816.292.8821

Karen D. Olson
Partner

Minneapolis

612.268.7020

James T. (Jim) Price
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8228

Jessica Merrigan is a partner in the Kansas City and Overland Park offices of Spencer Fane and currently serves as its Co-Chair of the Environment and Energy Practice Group. 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.

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Karen D. Olson is an experienced regulatory, compliance, and litigation attorney that uses her significant government and private practice experience to represent her clients. Most recently, Karen served as Deputy Attorney General for the State of Minnesota for more than a decade. As Deputy Attorney General, Karen represented the Attorney General, Governor, Legislature, and state agencies and boards on complex and high-profile legal matters.

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Jim Price is a partner with Spencer Fane, where he is co-chair of its Environment and Energy Law practice group and was a member of the firm’s Executive Committee from 1997 to 2009. His practice concentrates on environmental regulation and compliance, environmental litigation, toxic torts, and business transactions involving environmental issues. Jim has served as lead counsel for numerous environmental matters, including lawsuits, Superfund proceedings, RCRA corrective action, environmental transactions, and environmental permitting and compliance for solid waste, hazardous waste, water, air, and other matters.

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Matthew L. Rojas
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5455

Baerbel E. Schiller
Partner

Kansas City, St. Louis

816.292.8123 / 314.333.3903

Sharon T. Shaheen
Partner

Santa Fe

505.986.2678

Matthew Rojas provides a collaborative resource to his clients, preemptively addressing the full range of potential risks related to environmental regulations and associated compliance to keep projects on schedule while avoiding potentially costly missteps. He has experience helping clients address a wide range of issues related to natural resources, especially water.

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Baerbel Schiller, a partner in the Kansas City and St. Louis offices, practices with the firm’s environmental group. Before joining Spencer Fane, Baerbel worked for the Environmental Protection Agency for 15 years in various management positions. At the EPA, Baerbel negotiated and litigated environmental cases arising under Superfund and RCRA and developed national EPA policies on regulating compliance, hazardous waste cleanups, Superfund and RCRA enforcement, and the reuse of contaminated sites.

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Sharon assists clients with matters related to oil and gas, water, environment, and property, adeptly navigating intricate regulatory landscapes and tackling complex litigation, including class actions.

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Adam A. Veltri
Partner

Denver

303.839.3716 / 713.212.2610

Gregory J. (Greg) Walch
Of Counsel

Las Vegas

702.851.6509

Mark R. Wasem
Partner

Dallas, Houston

214.459.5878 / 713.212.2604

Adam Veltri assists clients with complex matters involving real estate and oil and gas acquisitions, divestitures, financings, development, and operations.

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Greg Walch advises on environmental, water, land use, mining, eminent domain, and administrative law matters throughout Southern Nevada. With more than 30 years of experience navigating all phases of natural resource and environmental issues – from sales transactions to permitting to compliance to litigation – he has established himself as an industry leader and boasts a track record of successful outcomes.

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Mark Wasem assists clients in a broad range of oil and gas transactions, including the acquisition and divestiture of oil and gas properties and natural gas pipelines, development and operation of natural gas pipelines, and the contractual and regulatory issues for upstream and midstream energy companies. He has more than 25 years of experience in the industry.

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John L. Watson
Of Counsel

Denver

303.592.8339

Catherine J. Webking
Partner

Austin

512.575.6060

Randi Winter
Partner

Minneapolis

612.268.7007

John Leonard Watson leverages his in-depth commercial trial and litigation knowledge to understand clients’ needs and goals and serves as a formidable advocate on their behalf. With his exceptional trial skills, John has successfully represented clients in state and federal courts, helping them plead their cases before juries and judges in dozens of trials to verdict. During his 46 years practicing law, he has also fought for his clients’ interests before numerous federal, state, and local administrative and regulatory agencies and shepherded them through alternative dispute resolution forums including arbitration and mediation.

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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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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.

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Shelby Wood
Partner

Kansas City, Springfield

816.292.8357

James L. (Jim) Wooll
Partner

Denver

303.592.8361

As a member of both the Environmental and Energy Law and the Real Estate groups at Spencer Fane, Shelby assists clients seeking to buy, sell, manage, finance, and redevelop environmentally impaired properties. Shelby regularly helps clients manage, investigate, and remediate CERCLA (Superfund) sites and contaminated properties in state run voluntary cleanup programs. He has also negotiated environmental use controls, restrictive covenants, and other agreements associated with managing long-term environmental liability at contaminated sites.

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When a dispute arises that affects your business or its future, having a trial lawyer like James L. Wooll on your team is crucial. Jim has extensive experience – in trials with juries and with appellate courts, as well as mediation and arbitration – helping clients head off potential lawsuits when possible and aggressively litigating them when they cannot.

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