B&D is pleased to announce that Lisa Dyar has joined the firm's Austin office as Principal, expanding the firm's regulatory and litigation capabilities in Texas and nationwide. Lisa joins B&D from a Texas firm where she served as the Environmental and Water practice leader. She previously served as a senior enforcement attorney in the Litigation Division of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). An active member of the Texas legal community, Lisa currently serves as Chair-Elect of the Texas Bar's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section.
With over two decades of experience in environmental law, Lisa's practice spans compliance, permitting, enforcement, litigation, acquisitions, auditing, and rulemaking across various industries. She has a proven track record of advancing clients' business objectives and has represented clients before TCEQ in major project permit applications, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Association (EPA) and TCEQ in air and waste enforcement matters. In particular, Lisa has experience leading clients through Texas' contested case hearing process and developing air quality permitting strategies for chemical companies.
During her tenure at TCEQ, Lisa handled some of the agency's most complex and high-profile air quality and multimedia enforcement cases. She also played a pivotal role in drafting statewide consolidated environmental enforcement legislation, now codified in Chapter 7 of the Texas Water Code.
"We are thrilled to welcome Lisa to Beveridge & Diamond," said Bina Reddy, Managing Principal of the Austin office. "Her decades of experience and deep understanding of environmental law in Texas will be invaluable to our clients, and further strengthens our capabilities in the region."
"I am excited to advance my practice at B&D where my clients will benefit from the firm's unmatched depth of environmental experience in Texas and across the United States," said Lisa.