Mark Strain Partner

Direct: 512.495.8817
Email: mstrain@dwmrlaw.com

Mr. Strain’s primary area of practice involves the representation of electric, gas, and telecommunications utilities in a wide array of matters before state and federal agencies, trial courts and courts of appeal.  Mark also practices administrative litigation before state agencies; transactional law for businesses; collegiate name, image and likeness (NIL) licensing; and entertainment law, representing musicians, record labels, and other music industry participants in contractual and other matters.

NOTEWORTHY

• Chair of the Electricity Committee of the Infrastructure and Regulated Industries section of the ABA (2018-2023)
• Listed in Best Lawyers® 2025 (Woodward/White, Inc., August 2024), in the field of Administrative/Regulatory Law, 2020-2025

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Author, The Annual Report of the Electric Committee of the ABA IRIS Section, 2018-2023 – surveying nationwide developments and regulation of the electric utility industry
• “A Century Plus of Power and Light” in Infrastructure, ABA IRIS Section, 2018
• “Electric Resource Planning in an Era of Burgeoning Renewables” in Infrastructure, ABA IRIS Section, 2020
• Annual Report of the Electric Committee, ABA IRIS Conferences 2018-2023
• Podcast: “2021 ERCOT Winter Storm Outages,” ABA IRIS Section, March 2021

EDUCATION

• The University of Texas School of Law (J.D.) 1992
• The University of Texas at Austin (B.A. with honors, Plan II Honors Program) 1989
• Outstanding Student, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989
• Member and Abbot, The Friar Society

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES

• State Bar of Texas, 1992
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

PROFESSIONAL AND LEGAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Bar Association
  • Member of Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries (IRIS) (2015-present)
  • Vice-Chair of Electricity Committee of IRIS (2015-2018)
  • Chair, Electricity Committee of IRIS (2018-2023)
  • ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force (2021-present)
  • Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
• Austin Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas
  • Administrative & Public Law Section
  • Entertainment & Sports Law Section
  • Public Utilities Law Section
• Energy Bar Association