ABOUT
Angela Morrison is a Board Certified administrative law practitioner with thirty years of environmental law experience. Angela's practice has been devoted to assisting utility and industry clients with regulatory, permitting, and compliance matters. Recently, she was co-lead counsel in the siting of
a major new power plant. Over the last three decades, Angela has helped successfully permit several thousand megawatts worth of new power generation facilities in Florida.
Angela recently helped lead an industry effort that uncovered errors in
data used to establish a federal air emission standard. Through the team's interactions with agency representatives, the client received relief in the form of an alternative standard at the state level, and the federal agency is currently in the process of revising its rules to make this alternative standard available nationwide.
Background
Angela joined Hopping Green & Sams, one of Florida's leading environmental law firms, as an associate in 1990 and became an
equity partner in 1997. Because of the timing of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and the need for the firm's clients to understand the many potential implications of the new legislation, Angela quickly became an authority on the CAA through her representation of trade association, utility, and industry clients. Angela played a large role in all of the major
air-related rulemakings in Florida for the next decade as well as the
initial authorizing legislation, and she continues to be one of the leaders
in this field. During those rulemakings, Angela represented various trade organizations as well as a multi-industry coalition and led successful negotiations on their behalf with the agency. Angela continued to gain knowledge and experience in all of the various substantive areas of environmental law through her representation of utility clients siting
dozens of new generating units under the Power Plant Siting Act. Over the years, the scope of her practice grew to include broader environmental representation on behalf of a wide variety of industry, manufacturing, developer, trade association, and government clients. With the momentum of a long and successful law firm career, Angela established a solo practice five years ago, where she has continued to represent industry, utility, developer, and individual clients with environmental matters. Angela's clients include Fortune 100 companies, established electric utilities, global manufacturing companies, and new entrepreneurial startup companies.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Bar Association, Section of Environment,
Energy, and Resources
Chair's Award for Outstanding Contribution 2017-2018
Council Member 2015-2018
Editor in Chief, Trends Newsletter 2013-2015
Editorial Board, Trends Newsletter 2009-2013
Chair, Co-Chair, Vice Chair, Air Quality Committee 2005-2012
Fall Meeting Planning Committee Chair and Co-Chair, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2014.
Co-Author, Clean Air Act Handbook 2012, 2016
The Florida Bar
Administrative Law Section; CLE Committee
Environmental and Land Use Law Section; Co-Author of
Chapter in ELULS Treatise
Air and Waste Management Association
Director, Florida Section 2012-2013
Co-Chair, Annual Conference, Florida Section 2013
Northeast Chapter Annual Conference Chair 2014
Coastal Plains and Big Bend Chapters 1991-present
Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates
Florida Association of Women Lawyers
Florida Brownfields Association
Florida Municipal Electric Association
National Crime Victims Bar Association
Tallahassee Bar Association
Tallahassee Women Lawyers
The Fellows of the American Bar, Life Fellow
The Florida Bar Foundation Fellows
AWARDS
Outstanding Alumnus Award, Oklahoma City University
Law School's Law Review
Gold Star Speaker's Award, The Air & Waste Management Association Coastal Plains Chapter
Recognized by Best Lawyers™ 2018 and 2019
Best Law Firms 2019 U.S. News & World Report
Florida Trends Legal Elite 2018
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Leadership Tallahassee, Class XIX
Past Chair, Kids Voting Leon County
Volunteer attorney for the Tallahassee Film Society
Equality Florida, 2017and 2018 LGBTQ* GalaCommittees
Advocate for civil rights and anti-discrimination laws for education
and public accommodations, including those based on disabilities,
sexual orientation, gender and perform related services on a
pro bono basis
EDUCATION
Oklahoma City University, J.D. (with High Distinction), Hatton W. Sumners Scholar, Managing Editor of Law Review, 1990
Northeastern State University (Oklahoma), B.A. (summa cum laude), 1987
BAR ADMISSIONS
The Florida Bar
U.S. District Court for Northern, Southern, and Middle Districts of Florida
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
State and Federal Government and Administrative Practice