Administrative

The Firm's attorneys regularly appear before a variety of federal, state and local administrative bodies including the Texas Education Agency, Boards of Education, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Texas Employment Commission, the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the Texas Health Department, the Texas Railroad Commission, the Texas Banking Department, Texas Savings and Loan Department, Texas State Board of Insurance, Texas Public Utility Commission, and the Office of the Consumer Credit Commissioner.

Representation of clients in front of these entities often requires a broad range of legal services, requiring analysis and counseling on contract, election, zoning and deed restriction, property and sales tax, employment and civil service, annexation, real estate and school law matters. The Firm also handles a wide range of public sector litigation, including condemnation, zoning and other land use regulation cases, civil rights and voting rights claims, and ad valorem tax controversies.

Specific examples of the Firm's administrative law practice include:

• Representing entities seeking permits from the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission.
• Representing landowners before special commissioners tribunals in eminent domain cases.
• Representing property owners before the Harris County Appraisal District on issues of valuation for property tax purposes.
• Representing employers and employees before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Texas Commission on Human Rights, Texas Employment Commission, Texas Worker's Compensation Commission and Department of Labor.
• Representing clients seeking a license from the Texas Consumer Credit Commissioner.
• Representing clients seeking a license from the Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending.
• Representing clients seeking to form life insurance companies.