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Board Certified -- Oil, Gas, & Mineral Law -- Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Registered Professional Engineer  (Texas - P.E. #48257). Over thirty-five years experience in the oil and gas industry, including more than thirty-five years as a petroleum engineer and over eighteen years as an attorney engaged in the private practice of law.. Engineering expertise in reservoir engineering, acquisition evaluation,
unitization, and regulatory affairs. Legal expertise in oil and gas,
natural resources, and administrative law.. Legal representation of clients in preparation and review of oil and gas documents, contract negotiations, contested cases and other proceedings before various state agencies, including extensive experience before the Texas Railroad Commission and the Texas General Land Office.. Author of both technical and legal articles and speaker at professional development programs.

Bill Hopkins helps to protect health care providers and health care companies against the many potential pitfalls in the industry, serving as both an advocate and educator for his clients in administrative law, regulatory defense, compliance, and litigation. He ensures that the legal aspects of healthcare are covered, so his clients can maintain their focus where it matters most – providing health care.. Bill advises the full spectrum of health care clients from individual health care providers, health care companies to institutional health care clients. He focuses on state and federal licensure, regulatory compliance, and enforcement matters, with an emphasis on proactive legal services aimed at maintaining compliance and minimizing potential legal exposure. He handles all aspects of health care professional licensure and practice; long-term care licensure, regulation, and enforcement; medical staff issues, credentialing, fraud, and abuse; and compliance with rules of state and federal regulatory agencies. He has litigated on behalf of his clients in both State and Federal Administrative Courts, as well as the District Courts of Texas.. Additionally, Bill is a recognized thought leader and prolific speaker on health care regulatory, enforcement, and compliance matters at the local, state, and national levels. He also serves as an advocate for diversity initiatives in the legal industry, health care industry and general business community, currently serving as President of the Central Texas Advisory Board of the Texas Diversity Council and sitting on the organization’s statewide board.

Austin-based attorney John E. Carlson has more than 22 years of legal experience. At Howry, Breen & Herman, he assists clients with a broad range of complex legal matters, including commercial litigation, contract disputes, product liability and personal injury, business torts, and probate claims. He also has extensive experience handling administrative law issues and contested environmental permitting. Mr. Carlson is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and has represented clients in appeals. He often assists clients in preparing legal commercial documents, such as contracts, wills, and trusts. Call today.

Athena Ponce joined De Leon, Washburn & Ward in 2012, after working for many years in the state legislature. She handles matters involving commercial litigation, business transactions, employment law, construction and real estate, administrative law, and appellate law, while also assisting pro bono clients. A board member of the Texas Law Review, she brings an unmatched level of diligence and persistence to each project, fully committing her skills for each client.. Before law school, Athena worked for Texas State Senator Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa for almost a decade, gaining firsthand experience in working with all levels of state and local government as a policy analyst. She worked on criminal justice, education, and state appropriations policies including public school finance reform in 2005, groundbreaking juvenile justice reform in 2007, and Sunset bills reorganizing public safety agencies. She also worked with Senator Hinojosa, Lieutenant Governor Dewhurst, and The American Heart Association in passing life-saving legislation that placed automated external defibrillators in schools all over Texas.. Athena enjoys photographing all Austin has to offer, reading, and caring for rescue animals.

Andy is routinely recognized by his peers as one of the leading public law advocates and strategists in Texas. Andy has been board certified in Administrative Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since that specialization was first recognized. Before helping found ENOCH KEVER, he was previously a shareholder in two other regional law firms, serving as managing partner of one and as head of the public law and alternative energy practices of the other.  He served five years as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of a facilities-based broadband communications corporation. Before entering private practice in Austin, Andy held senior positions in the Office of the Governor of Texas and the Office of the Attorney General of Texas after serving as counsel to a member of the Texas Senate.. Andy's 40+ year practice has focused on regulatory, legislative and corporate matters, primarily representing clients in the electric and communication industries. He has represented a variety of competitive electric and telecommunication interests as well as large regulated electric utilities, both investor owned and municipally owned. He represents clients before the courts, state and federal regulatory bodies, state legislatures, Congress and local governments.

A nurse and an attorney representing nurses before the Texas Board of Nursing. Taralynn Mackay is an attorney and a licensed registered nurse in Texas who uses her nursing background to represent nurses before the Texas Board of Nursing. Ms. Mackay is Board Certified in Administrative Law (law involved with representing health care providers before licensing boards).. ---When I am not representing nurses before the Texas Board of Nursing, I try to find time to give information on my three blogs:  , , and. I also try to find time to write articles and give seminars on nursing law and documentation dangers.  What can I say, I am an attorney so I love to talk.

A non-native Texan, I grew up in Illinois near St. Louis but moved to Austin for law school and have stayed ever since. My practice primarily focuses on representing health care professionals before various state and federal agencies. I have extensive experience representing physicians, pharmacies, pharmacists, dentists, and nurses before their different licensing agencies. I also routinely represent physicians in credentialing and peer review matters before hospitals and insurance networks. Not afraid to go to court, I have litigated my client's cases through initial complaints, informal conferences, administrative hearings, and all the way to the court of appeals with successful results. At the time of writing (2014), a large part of my practice focuses on physicians, mid-level practitioners, and pharmacies accussed of non-therapeutically prescribing or dispensing pain medication.