About James

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.

Practice Areas

Education

• The University of Texas, J.D., graduated 1976
• Southern Methodist University, BS, graduated 1973

Bar Admissions

• Texas, State Bar of Texas

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