James C. "Jim" Morriss III
98 San Jacinto Boulevard, Suite 1900 Austin, Texas 78701
Firm:
Thompson & Knight LLP
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Overview
Jim Morriss is Thompson & Knight's Austin Office Leader and the Firm-wide Practice Leader of the Environmental Law Practice Group. He focuses his practice on environmental permitting; compliance counseling; facility siting, including wetlands and endangered species work; legislative lobbying; and administrative and judicial litigation before local, state, and federal environmental agencies and state and federal courts.
Jim has extensive experience in counseling clients in environmental risk management, including the design and implementation of environmental auditing programs and environmental management systems, and in the investigation and disclosure of environmental liabilities and contingencies. He also has significant experience in litigation involving the investigation and remedy of complex sites including the development and presentation of risk based solutions to contamination.
Jim represents clients in a variety of industry and commercial sectors including steel, metals recycling, organic and inorganic chemicals, petroleum refining, plastics, cement, oil and gas exploration and production, transportation, and real estate development.
Jim has extensive experience in counseling clients in environmental risk management, including the design and implementation of environmental auditing programs and environmental management systems, and in the investigation and disclosure of environmental liabilities and contingencies. He also has significant experience in litigation involving the investigation and remedy of complex sites including the development and presentation of risk based solutions to contamination.
Jim represents clients in a variety of industry and commercial sectors including steel, metals recycling, organic and inorganic chemicals, petroleum refining, plastics, cement, oil and gas exploration and production, transportation, and real estate development.
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Awards
- The Best Lawyers in America® by Woodward/White Inc. (Environmental Law); 1989-present
- Chambers USA by Chambers & Partners (Environmental Law); 2004-present
- Texas Super Lawyers® by Thomson Reuters (Environmental, Environmental Litigation, Government Relations); 2003-2004, 2012
- Top 50 Central/West Region, Texas Super Lawyers® by Thomson Reuters; 2012
- Who's Who Legal: Texas by Law Business Research Limited (Environmental); 2007-present
Education
University of Texas - Austin, J.D.
Graduated 1976
Southern Methodist University, BS
Graduated 1973
Contact Details and Office Locations
Office: (512) 469-6100
98 San Jacinto Boulevard, Suite 1900
Austin, Texas 78701
Austin, Texas 78701
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