Samia Broadaway

Climate Change and Sustainability, Environmental, Safety and Incident Response Group, Environmental Aspects of Transactions, Environmental Enforcement Civil and Criminal Defense, Environmental Coalitions, Environmental, Natural Resources & Toxic Tort Litigation, ESG, Water and Wetlands

Samia Broadaway helps clients solve environmental puzzles. As environmental permitting, regulatory compliance and related litigation grow increasingly complex at the state and federal levels, clients need lawyers who can advise on how the law stands today, and predict where it will go in the future. To do so, Samia draws from a valuable combination of industry, legal and technical knowledge to make her client’s plans a reality.

Before her career as an attorney, Samia earned her B.S. in Geological and Environmental Science and worked as an environmental consultant, assessing facilities for regulatory compliance and conducting soil and groundwater remediation. Today, in her legal practice, she uses that technical background to design strategies to address every aspect of environmental permitting and compliance, with a particular focus on ground-level and subsurface activities. She also represents entities in contested environmental proceedings, both when her client’s permit is challenged and strategic protests.

Samia has developed a skill in projects involving Texas water rights. Having represented both the entities that supply water and the companies seeking water supplies, she has focused insights into how to address the challenges of limited supply and skyrocketing demand. Her strategies balance the intersections of regulations, permitting, planning, resource scarcity, competing interests and more.

Dovetailing with her experience in subsurface matters, Samia also advises and handles environmental permitting for carbon sequestration projects. Samia carefully brings together the precise mix of experts to work with her clients and regulators to shepherd complex projects through equally complex permitting.

State Bar of Texas

United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

Board Member, Austin Bar Association - Environmental Law Section (2019-2022)

State Bar Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section

Austin Young Lawyers Association

J.D., The University of Texas School of Law 2013

with high honors

Order of the Coif

Chancellor-at-Large

B.S., Geological & Environmental Science, Stanford University 2007

with departmental honors