Austin Texas Attorneys

We are an AV rated firm under Martindale Hubbell’s Peer Review Rating™ process*, in Texas. We offer many benefits including litigation and diplomacy abilities, strategic alliances, public policy development, and negotiation skills. Contact our Austin Texas attorneys to discuss your legal needs. We represent individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations with a variety of legal issues, including:

• Administrative law and litigation : Our firm assists clients with obtaining and maintaining permits and licenses. In addition, we represent individuals and businesses in front of regulatory agencies regarding enforcement actions, administrative penalties, and formulating or changing public policies.
• Campaign finance, election law, and ethics advising : Our attorneys are experienced in ethics advising, ethics training, and campaign finance and election law. We guide office holders, candidates, organizations, and political action committees through the process of candidacy, state and federal campaign laws, and campaign finance disclosure. We provide confidential opposition research. We also offer training and information seminars through the Texas Election and Campaign Law Institute (TECLI) and the firm.
• Civil litigation : We represent individuals, non-profit organizations, and businesses with any litigation issues including litigation involving property rights, property tax disputes and litigation, water rights, constitutional rights, business, insurance, and many other areas of civil litigation.
• Environment, natural resources, and energy law: We have extensive experience in environmental law and natural resources or energy matters, including permitting, licensing, enforcement, rule making proceedings, private property rights, property environmental concerns, air permits, water rights, and water rates.
• Estate planning, probate, trusts and elder law: Estate planning is an important tool for protecting your assets for you and others that you care about. Trusts are important in the estate planning area. Ask for our brochure on estate and disability planning and the questionnaires for your own situation (you can also find these forms at the bottom of our Estate Planning & Probate page). We draft these documents so they meet your individual and unique needs. Our attorneys can help you draft a will and other estate and disability planning documents.
• Local government and municipal law: We serve as counsel to local governments, water districts, corporations, and private utilities. Such issues include open meetings, open records, and other various governmental entity issues, including issues related to environmental and natural resource law.
• Non profits, including 501(c)(3) entities: Our attorneys assist you in organizing and operating non-profit entities, whether they be 501(c)(3) charities, 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations, churches, chambers of commerce, business leagues, agricultural organizations, social clubs, and even 527 organizations exempt as political organizations.
• Property tax disputes: Our lawyers assist businesses and individuals in determining whether their ad valorem property tax appraisals are too high or inequitable. Out lawyers assist you in pursuing administrative, and if necessary, court actions to challenge the appraisals. We also assist clients with property tax collection cases.
• Public policy, legislative, and governmental affairs: Our firm represents clients before the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. and Texas government. Our firm engages in extensive research of laws, drafting legislation, amendments, analyses, and position papers for our clients.
• Water rights: Water is a finite and increasingly scarce resource in Texas. With the scarcity and heightened demand from a growing population, the state of Texas has also increased its regulation of water rights. While there are distinct differences between the law's treatment of ground water and surface water, the state has begun planning for increased demands and the limited supplies of all water. Our attorneys can assist landowners, cities, water utilities, and water consumers with their issues pertaining to water regulation and rights.

If you need experienced legal representation, contact our lawyers today.

Potts & Reilly, L.L.P., in Austin, Texas, represents clients throughout Texas, including the communities of Austin, Dallas, San Marcos, Georgetown, Round Rock, Marble Falls, Horseshoe Bay, Granite Shoals, Kingsland, Bastrop, El Paso, the Texas Hill Country, Highland Lakes, and Central Texas.

Travis County • Williamson County • Burnet County
Llano County • Dallas County • Hays County

*CV, BV, and AV (A means very high to preeminent for legal ability and V means very high for general ethics standards) are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.

Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.