Nick Laurent

Experience

1. Partner

   Barron, Adler, Clough & Oddo, Pllc

   Aug 2015 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Nick Laurent is a partner in the Austin office of Barron, Adler, Clough & Oddo, LLP where he exclusively represents landowners in eminent domain, inverse condemnation, land use, and real property transactions and litigation. Nick has represented landowners in all phases of the condemnation process, including pre-suit negotiations, in special commissioner hearings, before state and federal trial courts, and on appeal before Texas intermediate appellate courts and the Supreme Court of Texas. His clients range from individual landowners and ranchers to Fortune 50 companies, franchise and independent hotel and restaurant owners, family offices, mineral owners, nationwide and local real estate investment trusts, self storage owners, churches and large religious institutions, commercial, industrial, residential and multifamily developers, international real estate investors, multinational corporations, and other large institutional entities.Nick’s eminent domain and real property rights practice extends across the state of Texas. He has represented landowners in eminent domain matters pursued by the federal government, the State of Texas, regional mobility and toll road authorities, most major Texas counties and several rural Texas counties, every major Texas city, all of the major oil/gas pipeline and midstream companies, all of the major electric transmission providers and rural electric cooperatives, municipal utility districts, special utility districts, water authorities, water districts, and other condemnors. His broad experience covers a variety of real property takings, including road and highway projects, oil/gas underground pipeline easements, oil/gas pipeline surface sites, electric transmission line easements, underground water and sewer pipeline easements, above ground water tower takings, raw water intake facilities, drainage easements, inundation easements, railroad acquisitions, border wall takings, flood levee projects, and billboards.

Education

• Southern Methodist University

  B.B.A.

  2001 — 2005

• University of Tulsa College of Law

  J.D.

  2005 — 2008

Skills

• Arbitration
• Legal Writing
• Mediation
• Product Liability
• Torts
• Litigation
• Insurance Law
• Hearings
• Trade Secrets
• Legal Research
• Commercial Litigation
• Civil Litigation
• Courts
• Trial Practice
• Trials
• Appeals