Land Use & Infrastructure Litigation
Our Land Use & Infrastructure Litigation team delivers practical, business‑oriented advocacy across the full project lifecycle—from site control and permitting through trial and appeal. Drawing on decades of experience in energy development, complex infrastructure, and public‑utility representation, we align entitlement strategy with litigation readiness so projects stay viable even if challenges occur.
Energy Development: Wind, Solar, and Generation
We represent developers, owners, and investors in utility‑scale wind and solar, battery storage, and conventional generation projects. Our work spans zoning and special‑use approvals, environmental review, interconnection and transmission corridors, tax and incentive structures, and defense of permits in administrative and judicial forums. We understand how to build a record that survives scrutiny, coordinate technical experts on acoustics, glare, wildlife, cultural resources, and grid reliability, and negotiate host‑community agreements that mitigate risk without compromising commercial objectives. When disputes arise, we prosecute and defend actions involving conditional use permits, variances, development agreements, and post‑approval conditions to keep critical milestones on track.
Pipelines, Data Centers, and Critical Facilities
We guide the siting and construction of linear and point‑source infrastructure, including natural gas and liquids pipelines, carbon capture and sequestration networks, high‑capacity data centers, and substations. Our team navigates right‑of‑way acquisition, survey access, construction easements, and setbacks, while coordinating environmental clearances. For data center developments, we address power procurement and redundancy, cooling and water rights, noise and vibration, traffic management, and resilience requirements, working closely with utilities and local governments to secure approvals tailored to hyperscale timelines.
Eminent Domain and Certificates of Convenience and Necessity
We litigate eminent domain from pre‑condemnation strategy through commissioners’ hearings, jury trials, and appeals, ensuring compliance with statutory prerequisites while safeguarding schedule and budget. Our practice includes necessity and route challenges, good‑faith negotiation and bona fide offer issues, valuation of fee and easement interests, temporary and permanent takings, and business and remainder damages. We also prosecute and defend applications for certificates of convenience and necessity, addressing need, public interest, environmental compatibility, and routing alternatives before utility commissions and in judicial review. Whether advancing a greenfield corridor or defending an approved certificate, we build administrative records that withstand appeal and position projects for timely construction.
Administrative, Regulatory, and Appellate Strength
Projects succeed when permitting, regulatory advocacy, and litigation are integrated. We appear before planning commissions, state environmental agencies, public utility commissions, and federal bodies, coordinating NEPA and state analogs, Section 401/404, species and cultural resource compliance, and air and water permits. When decisions are challenged, we pursue or defend administrative appeals and parallel court actions, seek stays or expedited schedules, and manage multi‑forum proceedings to minimize delay.
A Results‑Focused Approach
We translate technical complexity into persuasive narratives grounded in the record, the statute, and the market realities of energy and infrastructure development. From negotiating workable conditions of approval to securing possession orders and defending certificates on appeal, our focus is the same: achieving buildable outcomes on the timelines that matter to our clients.
