At the intersection of Austin’s abundant natural beauty and fast-growing economy are real estate and land use issues with the potential for legal controversy.
The firm’s attorneys help companies, organizations and individuals navigate these issues, backed with broad-based experience in handling a wide range of property and land use disputes – both commercial and residential.
This experience includes:
- Partition suits
- Constitutional issues regarding land use
- Restrictive covenant controversies
- Adverse possession cases
- Foreclosure-related disputes
- Fraud litigation over construction or sale of real estate
- Landlord/tenant litigation
- Entitlement, land use restrictions and noise ordinance litigation
- Condemnation litigation and objections to condemnation authority
- Land contamination lawsuits related to oil & gas exploration and production, underground storage tank leaks and contamination from industrial chemicals
- Oil Pollution Act enforcement actions against the U.S. Department of Justice
- Representation of landowners and real estate developers across a broad spectrum of land use issues including:
- wetland impact disputes and administrative enforcement actions
- endangered species litigation and administrative enforcement actions
- municipal code controversies
- Water rights disputes
- Easement litigation
