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.
What legal services does this lawyer offer?
Administrative / Regulatory Law
Energy Regulatory Law
Environmental Law
Litigation - Environmental
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