Paulina Williams

Practice Areas

Paulina Williams advises clients across industrial and commercial sectors on complex environmental matters. Paulina's experience spans water

quality, water rights, waste, air, and natural resources issues. She has worked extensively on environmental permitting, including contested case

hearings, cross-agency consultations, and permit defense in state and federal courts. She advises clients on environmental compliance, litigates

environmental claims, and provides transactional support addressing significant environmental permits, liabilities, or risks.

Career

Admitted to Texas Bar in 2008; New York Bar in 2006.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas; New York State Bar; Austin Bar Association; State Bar Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section; Texas Water

Conservation Association (TWCA), Board Member; Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association, Board Member

Publications

Essentials of Texas Water Law, 7th Ed., co-authored update to Integrating Water Quality Standards into Water Management Programs; What We are Watching in 2023, Environmental Evolutions, February 2023; Texas Wetlands Conference, presented NEPA Update: Let’s Take a Hard Look, April 2023, presented Waters of the U.S. Update, February 2022, co-presented What’s New In Nationwide Permitting, Jan. 2021; Changing Face of Water Law Conference, presented Eye on the CWA –Developments in Nationwide Permitting, Feb. 2021, Southern Gas Association Technical Conference, co-presented Natural Resource Damage Assessment Case Study, Feb. 2020; TWCA Convention, presented Waters of the US Update, Mar. 2020.

Personal

J.D., Harvard Law School 2005; Bachelor of Architecture, The University of Texas 2000