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.About Shauna N. Fitzsimmons
Shauna’s practice focuses on assisting clients on a broad range of water-related and environmental legal issues. Shauna represents groundwater conservation districts, municipalities, public and private water utilities, and landowners in matters involving regulation and planning, water rights, water quality, water resource development and transactions, environmental permitting, oil and gas matters, service area disputes, rates, litigation, board governance, and governmental relations. Shauna is also actively engaged in the state’s legislative and administrative regulatory processes. She practices before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Water Development Board, the Railroad Commission of Texas, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Texas Legislature, and numerous local and regional governmental bodies. Shauna attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Corporate Communications and minor in business. Shauna received her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Texas Tech School of Law, where she served as Articles Editor for the Texas Tech Law Review. Shauna is a native of San Antonio, and currently resides in central Austin.

.Education
  • Texas Tech School of Law, J.D.
    Articles Editor, Texas Tech Law Review
    Staff Editor, Texas Tech Law Review
  • University of Texas at Austin, B.S.

.Bar Admissions
  • State Bar of Texas

.Professional Affiliations
  • State Bar of Texas
    Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section
    Legislative and Campaign Law Section
    Administrative Law Section
  • Austin Bar Association
    Environmental Law Section
    Administrative Law Section
  • Austin Young Lawyers Association
  • Texas Water Conservation Association
  • Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts

.Publications & Presentations
  • “Texas Water Law Litigation and Legislative Update,” CLE International’s Law of the Rio Grande Conference Santa Fe, New Mexico (2015).
  • “Legislative Lowdown, Aquifer Storage and Recovery Roundtable,” Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts Summit, San Marcos, Texas, August 2014.
  • “Texas Litigation and Legislation,” The Water Report, Issue #123, May 2014.
  • “Texas Water Law Litigation and Legislative Update,” CLE International’s Law of the Rio Grande Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2014).
  • “Groundwater Availability as a Matter of Law: A Discussion of the Statutory Model for Quantifying the Resource and Determining Water Availability,” State Bar of Texas 14th Annual Changing Face of Water Rights Conference, San Antonio, Texas (2013).
  • “Texas Water Law Litigation and Legislative Update,” CLE International’s Law of the Rio Grande Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2013).
  • Co-author, “Groundwater Rights, District and Landowner Perspectives,” CLE International’s 22nd Annual Conference, Texas Water Law, Austin, Texas (2012).
  • Co-author, “Administrative Decision-Making in Texas Groundwater Regulation,” State Bar of Texas 24th Annual Advanced Administrative Law Course (2012).
  • Co-Author, “Water Rights In Times of Drought, What It Means for the Rio Grande,” CLE International’s 12th Annual Conference, Law of the Rio Grande Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2012).
  • “A Life Beyond the Lease: The Pooling Power Survives the Termination of the Oil and Gas Lease in Texas,” 43 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 719 (2011).