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Alicia R. French

Alicia R. French

Senior Counsel, Austin
512.236.2352
afrench@jw.com
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Alicia R. French

Alicia R. French

Senior Counsel, Austin
512.236.2352
afrench@jw.com
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Practice Areas

  • Energy
  • Environment & Natural Resources

Experience

  • Electric Regulatory
  • Energy Regulation & Governmental Affairs
  • Power Generation
  • Produced Water
  • Shale & Unconventional Resources
  • Upstream Oil & Gas

Biography

Alicia French is Senior Counsel with Jackson Walker, where she practices energy and environmental law, with an emphasis on regulatory matters. She has extensive experience in administrative law and frequently practices before the Texas Railroad Commission, along with the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Alicia represents a diverse set of clients in permitting, enforcement, and other matters before the Texas Railroad Commission, including matters involving the exploration, production, development, storage, sales, and transportation of oil and gas; advising gas utilities, gas and crude oil pipeline operators, and consumers regarding midstream regulatory matters, including rate cases; management of wastes from oil and gas operations; and representing surface coal mining companies, including representation in surface coal mining renewal/revision applications.

Additionally, she counsels clients on administrative, transactional, and regulatory issues before the Public Utility Commission of Texas, including regulatory proceedings, contested cases, and compliance matters.

In addition to her regulatory practice, Alicia has experience advising clients on transactional matters, including complex oil and gas transactions.

Alicia served on the Board of the Oil and Gas Section of the Austin Bar Association from 2017-2021.

Education

B.A., summa cum laude, Louisiana State University

J.D., University of Texas School of Law

  • Texas Law Review, member
  • Order of the Coif

Bar Admissions

Texas

  • Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2024

Austin Bar Association Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section – Chair (2020-2021), Vice-Chair (2019-2020), Treasurer (2018-2019), Secretary (2017-2018)

Jackson Walker Represents Bridger Logistics in Successful Divestiture of Saltwater Disposal, Crude Oil Truck Transportation, and Logistics Businesses

August 14, 2018

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March 6, 2025
Insights

U.S. Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Wastewater Permitting Authority in Major Clean Water Act Decision

By Leonard H. Dougal and Alicia French

On March 4, 2025, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, which restricted the scope of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) permitting authority under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”).

JW Diversity & Inclusion 2022 Report theme

April 15, 2024
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JW Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter – April 2024

View Jackson Walker’s April 2024 Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Perspectives.

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March 21, 2024
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Jackson Walker Congratulates 2024 Texas Rising Stars

Each year, Super Lawyers recognizes only 5% of Texas attorneys who either are 40 years of age or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less as “Rising Stars.”

Lesser prairie-chicken with JW logo

June 8, 2021
Insights

Proposed Listing of Lesser Prairie-Chicken Under Endangered Species Act and Potential Impact on Energy Projects

By Jerry Webberman, Alicia French, Jesse Lotay, & Ben Rhem

On June 1, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to list the lesser prairie-chicken under the Endangered Species Act. If finalized, the species would be listed as endangered in the Southern DPS, which is located in West Texas and New Mexico and overlaps with the oil- and gas-rich Permian Basin, and threatened in the Northern DPS, located in the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado. Public hearings to gather comments on the proposal will be held on July 8 and July 14, and all public comments must be submitted by August 2, 2021.

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Recognition & Accolades

  • Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2024

Community Involvement

Austin Bar Association Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section – Chair (2020-2021), Vice-Chair (2019-2020), Treasurer (2018-2019), Secretary (2017-2018)

Practice Areas

  • Energy
  • Environment & Natural Resources

Experience

  • Electric Regulatory
  • Energy Regulation & Governmental Affairs
  • Power Generation
  • Produced Water
  • Shale & Unconventional Resources
  • Upstream Oil & Gas

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