Austin provides strategic counsel to energy and natural resources clients on energy regulation and complex litigation.
Energy Regulation: Austin assists clients with matters involving the regulation of utilities and electric markets, complex utility rate proceedings, energy development, and the nuances of administrative law and litigation. Austin’s clients include energy consumer associations, individual energy consumers, energy developers, and entities subject to or threatened with regulatory oversight.
Complex Commercial and Natural Resource Litigation: Austin represents client in a wide range of environmental and commercial matters, including defense of energy projects and mining permits, commercial disputes, toxic tort suits, land use disputes, and employment claims.
Austin provides counsel and advocacy on behalf of his clients in administrative proceedings and courts in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming as well as before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).