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 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
• Outstanding Student, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989
• Member, The Friar Society
• Author, The Annual Report of the Electric Committee of the ABA IRIS Section, 2019
• Co-Author, “A Century Plus of Power and Light” in Infrastructure, ABA IRIS Section, 2018
• Listed in Best Lawyers^® 2024 (Woodward/White, Inc., August 2023), in the field of Administrative/Regulatory Law, 2020-2024

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

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-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