Environment. Energy. Business
Creative legal solutions at the intersection of the environment, energy, and business.
S Deatherage Law advises electricity generation and renewable energy developers, companies, data centers, landowners, real estate firms, investment funds, and lenders on environmental, energy, infrastructure, and business matters.
$10 billion in energy infrastructure, 100+ utility-scale solar, wind, and storage projects, 100+ solar, wind, and energy storage ground leases, and a 1 GW data center taken from inception through sale of project.
Practice Areas
Multiple disciplines.
Integrated practice.
01
Environmental
Permitting, compliance, enforcement, transactions, due diligence, contaminated property, carbon credits, and ESG.
02
Environmental Litigation
Contamination and cost recovery, enforcement defense, toxic tort and property damage, and permitting proceedings representing plaintiffs and defendants. Often engaging as co-counsel with litigation firms to provide environmental regulatory and environmental tort expertise to the team.
03
Energy
Solar, wind, storage, natural gas, transmission, and data centers: leases, power purchase agreements, engineering, procurement, and construction contracts, interconnection, and offtake. Representing both developers and landowners.
04
Water
Surface water and groundwater rights in Texas. Permits and approvals for water use or extraction, enforcement before the TCEQ, groundwater rights agreements, and sales and leases of water rights by landowners.
05
Business
Company formations and sales of companies and energy project portfolios. Contracts, including consulting, engineering, vendor, and various other agreements. Outside fractional general counsel services.
Technology and AI
Efficiency in providing legal services.
Technology such as document automation and artificial intelligence allows our firm to be more efficient in providing legal services. Time savings can be 20–30% or more. AI-assisted review of contracts provides more consistent results across similar contracts. An attorney reviews all output and revisions or drafting of AI legal software.