James C. "Jim" Morriss III

James C. "Jim" Morriss III


Holland & Knight LLP

Recognized since 1989

Austin, Texas

Practice Areas

Administrative / Regulatory Law

Energy Regulatory Law

Environmental Law

Litigation - Environmental

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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.

Location
  • 98 San Jacinto Boulevard, Suite 1900
    Austin, TX 78701
Education
  • The University of Texas, J.D., graduated 1976
  • Southern Methodist University, BS, graduated 1973
Bar Admissions
  • Texas, State Bar of Texas
Affiliations
  • Austin Bar Association; Administrative Law Section; Environmental, Natural Resources, and Water Law Section - Member
  • Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law, The University of Texas School of Law - Advisory Board, 2011
  • Dallas Bar Association; Environmental Law Section, Chairman, 1986 - Member
  • State Bar of Texas; Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section, Chairman, 1988-1989 - Member
  • Texas Task Force on Waste Management Policy, a Joint Senate-House Committee that evaluated the need for changes to laws governing solid waste management in Texas - Member, 1988
  • United States Business Council for Sustainable Development - Executive Committee

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • 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
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Water Law

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