Partners.
One partner built cases inside Texas government.
The other spent years dismantling government overreach in court.
Together, they bring insight from both sides—and put it to work for you.
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Bill protects businesses, professionals, and landowners from government overreach. His career runs through Big Law, regulated industry, the Texas Attorney General's Office, and boutique litigation, giving him a 360-degree view of how government disputes are built, defended, and won. Few lawyers have operated in every seat—and Bill uses that perspective to identify where government cases fail and drives them there.
Bill's career changed in April 2009 when then-Attorney General Greg Abbott invited him to "manage and litigate the State's biggest and most important cases." As Special Assistant and Senior Counsel, he spearheaded Texas's opposition to the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, served as Texas's lead trial counsel in the 26-state constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act, and negotiated a $50M settlement against BP for Clean Air Act violations from the Texas City explosion. He was then appointed Deputy Attorney General for Civil Litigation, where he managed 300 attorneys across 10 litigation divisions, quarterbacked a record-breaking $158M Civil Medicaid Fraud settlement and $170M jury verdict, and successfully defended Texas's Flexible (air) Permit program at oral arguments before the Fifth Circuit.
Bill has been consistently recognized in Best Lawyers in America and Texas Super Lawyers. He is licensed in Texas and admitted before the Fifth and D.C. Circuits, the Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas, and all Texas state courts.
Building 3, Suite 400
Austin, Texas 78746
By appointment only
Applying her significant experience in all stages of litigation — including briefing matters before the U.S. Supreme Court — Alexa represents individuals and businesses against the most well-funded and powerful opposition: the government.
After Quinn Emanuel, Alexa clerked for Judge D. Michael Fisher (Third Circuit) and Judge Don R. Willett (Fifth Circuit). Motivated by the barriers to government accountability she witnessed during her clerkships, she joined the Institute for Justice as an attorney, where she defended constitutional rights including property rights, free speech, economic liberty, and due process — and developed deep expertise in the immunity doctrines that close courthouse doors to victims of government abuse.
Alexa then served as Executive Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, followed by a role as Counsel at Kraus Jenkins PLLC, where she led the firm's civil rights and appellate practices. Her commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today. She is licensed in Texas, New York, D.C., and Pennsylvania, and admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Third, Fifth, and Tenth Circuits.
Building 3, Suite 400
Austin, Texas 78746
By appointment only