Janet McQuaid is a partner in the firm's Pittsburgh-Southpointe office. Her practice includes compliance counseling, enforcement defense, litigation, and transactions relating to environmental law.

Janet has briefed and argued environmental matters before the state and federal district and appellate courts. She has represented clients in contested permitting and enforcement proceedings before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Railroad Commission, the Edwards Aquifer Authority and several municipalities. Janet has also supported numerous transactions involving industrial and commercial facilities, including refineries, chemical plants, oil and gas properties, pipelines, mines, quarries, paper mills, dry cleaners and many others.

Prior to attending law school, Janet worked as an engineer for eleven years for Exxon, where she provided technical support in designing, building and operating oil and gas exploration, production and refining facilities.

• Senior Attorney for El Paso Corporation providing legal support for compliance and litigation matters involving a wide range of environmental law disciplines, including remediation, Superfund, air quality, climate change, solid and hazardous waste management, water quality, water supply, underground injection control, toxic substances control and oilfield legacy litigation
• Lead attorney for oil and gas trade associations in judicial review of the U.S. EPA's interpretation of the Clean Water Act, which would have required storm water permits for oil and gas construction activities and related challenge to storm water general permit for oil and gas construction activities, which together were estimated by DOE to have the potential to reduce onshore, domestic production by about 10% over twenty years
• Lead water law attorney for electric generator in due diligence and contract negotiations for purchase of reclaimed water and raw supplies for several power plants in Texas, and related government authorizations
• Lead attorney for cement and concrete company in defense of wastewater discharge enforcement action and potentially contested wastewater discharge permit renewal
• Lead environmental counsel for large, financial-sector investor in transactions, litigation and remediation involving shopping centers impacted by historical dry cleaning and oil and gas operations
• Lead attorney in contested permit for hazardous and mixed waste treatment and storage facility
• Counsel for major refining and petrochemical company on water quality and water rights issues
• Counsel for a semiconductor manufacturing and research facility and for a chemical importer on various toxic substances control, new chemical regulation and pesticide registration matters
• Environmental co-counsel for mining company in environmental due diligence and contract negotiations for multiple ore and smelting facilities in the U.S. and internationally
• Counsel for owner of new quarry in permit dispute under National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act
• U.S. co-counsel on environmental issues for purchaser in $1.5 billion transaction involving acquisition of multiple petrochemical facilities in the U.S. and internationally

• American Bar Association - Section on Environment, Energy and Resources - Water Quality and Wetlands Committee, Vice-Chair Newsletters/Trends (2005, 2006)
• Fifth and Seventh Circuit Bar Associations
• State Bar of Texas - Environmental, Administrative Law, and Real Estate Sections
• The College of the State Bar of Texas, Fellow (1995 - 2006)
• Texas Water Conservation Association, Water Laws Committee
• Air and Waste Management Association - Central Texas Chapter, Program Chair (2004 - 2006)
• Society of Women Engineers

• "Super Lawyers," Environmental, Thomson Reuters (2007 - 2009)
• Chambers USA, Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers (2005 - 2007)
• Best Lawyers in America, Environmental Law (2007)
• Who's Who in American Law (2007)
• "Profiles in Power," Austin Business Journal, Finalist (2006)
• National Registry of Who's Who (2001)

• Co-author, "Trade secrets and the regulation of hydraulic fracturing - Toward a global perspective," Norton Rose and Fulbright & Jaworski Guide, April 11, 2013
• Co-author, "Pennsylvania Act 13 (HB1950) Rewrites Law Governing Oil and Gas Activities," Fulbright Briefing, March 12, 2012
• Essentials of Texas Water Resources, Chapter 21 (Water Quality Standards) (With Jennifer Benaman), Chapter 22 (Water Quality Considerations in Permitting Water Supply Projects), and Chapter 23 (Dredge and Fill Permits), TexasBarBooks, 2009
• "Waving the Federal Flag: An Update on Federal Agency and Judicial Action," Fulbright Environmental Update, April 3, 2007
• "Environmental Enforcement at Construction Sites: What To Do and Why It Really Matters," Associated General Contractors of Texas, October 3, 2006
• "Real World Ethics," 16th Annual Texas Water Law Conference, September 28, 2006
• Water Quality: A Big Year in the High Courts," 16th Annual Texas Water Law Conference, September 28, 2006
• "Enforcement: How to Prepare, How to Respond, and Why It Really Matters," Associated General Contractors of Austin, June 6, 2006
• "EPA Announces Final Storm Water Rule for Oil and Gas Construction Activities," Fulbright Client Alert, June 2006, reprinted by invitation in International Law Office Newsletter, September 2006
• "Used Oil," Environmental Law, Chapter 22, Texas Practice Series No. 46, Thomson-West 2d edition, 2005 and Pocket Part 2006; "Citizen Suits & Public Participation," Chapter 24, Pocket Part 2006; Chapter 30, "Public Participation and Citizen Suits, Pocket Part 2007; Chapter 33, "Environmental Insurance," Pocket Part 2006; Chapter 3
• "Trading Spaces: Common Law, Statutory, and Contractual Allocations of Environmental Liability in Commercial Transactions," 35 Texas Environmental Law Journal 5, Fall 2004
• "Generator Standards," Chapter 8, The RCRA Manual, ABA SEER, 2004
• "Environmental Issues in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production," Proceedings of the 55^th Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference, Matthew-Bender, 2004
• "Compliance Strategies for EPA's Construction General Permit," Environmental Permitting and Regulation Journal, Wiley & Sons, Spring 2000
• Co-Author and Co-Editor, The Texas Environmental Law Handbook Gov't Institutions, 4^th & 5^th editions, 1996 and 2000

• "Federal Regulation of Carbon Sequestration," University of Texas CLE Carbon and Climate Change Conference, Austin, Texas, Fall 2008
• "Energy Litigation Trends: Water Quality and Water Supply Issues," Fulbright Seminar, Houston, Texas, April 2007
• "Water Quality Update Seminar: New Federal Developments for the Energy Industry," Fulbright Seminar, Denver, Colorado, April 2007
• "What Do The Feds Have to Say: Wetlands, Water Quality, Water Transfers," Texas Water Conservation Association Annual Policy Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 2006
• Annual Texas Water Law Conference, Co-Chair and Speaker, CLE International, Austin, Texas, Fall 1998 - 2007; Houston Water Law Conference, CLE International, Houston, Texas, 1999 - 2003, 2007
• "Enforcement: How to Prepare, How to Respond, and Why It Really Matters," Associated General Contractors, Austin, Texas, June 26, 2006
• "NPDES Storm Water Permitting for Oil and Gas Construction Activities: A Legal and Regulatory Update," 12th Annual International Petroleum Environmental Conference, Houston, Texas, November 8, 2005
• "Alternative Environmental Dispute Resolution: An Industry Lawyer's Perspective," Conference of the Americas, Panama City, Panama, Co-Sponsored by The Frank Evans Center for Dispute Resolution of the South Texas College of Law, October 19, 2005
• "Exploration & Production Environmental Update," Austin Bar Association Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law Section, Austin, Texas, October 2005
• "Environmental Law 101: Water Quality," 15th Annual Texas Environmental Superconference, Austin, Texas, August 2005
• "Trading Spaces: Environmental Risk Allocation in Commercial Transactions," 14^th Annual Texas Environmental Superconference, August 2004
• "Water Quality Update for Oil and Gas Producers," Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association, June 2004; Independent Oil and Gas Association of Pennsylvania, May 2004; Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, June 2003
• Various Topics, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Annual Environmental Law Update Seminar, 1994 to Present

1992 - J.D., honors, The University of Texas
1989 - MBA, Houston Baptist University
1978 - B.S.ChE, magna cum laude, University of Pittsburgh

While at The University of Texas, Janet was chief manuscript editor of the Texas Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. While at the University of Pittsburgh, she was elected to the Tau Beta Pi engineering honorary society and the Omega Chi Epsilon chemical engineering honorary society.

Janet is admitted to practice law in Texas, Colorado and Pennsylvania. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 5th, 7th, and 9th Circuits and the Western and Southern Districts of Texas.

• Colorado
• Pennsylvania
• Texas

• Texas Advocacy Project
  • Board of Directors (2011)
  • Justice Partner (2009 - 2011)
• University of Houston School of Law, Adjunct Professor (2010)
• Paramount and State Theatres, Austin, Texas
  • Board of Directors (2005 - 2011)
  • Treasurer (2007 - 2010)
  • Secretary (2006)
• Therapy Pet Pals of Texas, Volunteer (2000 - 2006)