Samia Broadaway helps clients solve environmental puzzles. As environmental permitting, regulatory compliance and related litigation grow increasingly complex at the state and federal levels, clients need lawyers who can advise on how the law stands today, and predict where it will go in the future. To do so, Samia draws from a valuable combination of industry, legal and technical knowledge to make her client’s plans a reality.
Before her career as an attorney, Samia earned her B.S. in Geological and Environmental Science from Stanford University and worked as an environmental consultant, assessing facilities for regulatory compliance and conducting soil and groundwater remediation. Today, in her legal practice, she uses that technical background to design strategies which address every aspect of environmental permitting and compliance, with a particular focus on surface and subsurface activities. She also represents entities in contested environmental proceedings, both when her client’s permit is challenged and strategic protests.
Samia has developed a skill in projects involving Texas water rights. Having represented both the entities that supply water and the companies seeking water supplies, she has focused insights into how to address the challenges of limited supply and skyrocketing demand. Her strategies balance the intersections of regulations, permitting, financials, scarcity of the resource, competing interests and more.
Dovetailing with her experience in subsurface matters, Samia also handles environmental permitting and regulatory compliance for carbon sequestration matters. Samia carefully brings together the precise mix of experts to work with her clients and the regulators to shepherd complex projects through equally complex permitting.
Environmental Permitting
Environmental Counseling and Transactions
Litigation
