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Whether you are starting to plan or finalizing your project, Campbell offers a range of legal services and tailored advice related to water and resilience, helping you to focus resources where you need them most.

Policy

Policy changes can change the trajectory of your organization. Campbell can help you review, analyze, comment, and participate in local, state, and federal policymaking so you can prepare for changes and work to achieve better outcomes.

Campbell has broad and deep experience participating in policymaking, identifying and avoiding costly risks, and creating strategies to work with policymakers. These strategies start with the public interest and then work to align public and private interests to achieve consensus and better outcomes that communities and decisionmakers support. Campbell also assists with compliance, ensuring that your organization meets its obligations and maintains the goodwill of regulators and communities.

Procurement

Procurement involves risk. Campbell can review your organization’s procurement strategy and help identify and manage risks. This process will help reduce costs and delays, seeking win-win strategies and ways to leverage the best of public and private sectors.

In some cases, relatively simple, low-cost strategies can significantly reduce project risk, especially on complex procurement. Campbell has unique experience and insight that can benefit your project in terms of finance, regulatory risk and compliance, selection processes, stakeholder engagement, and other challenges.

Permits & Contracts

Water is critical to government and business functions. Campbell can assist you in exploring, developing, and securing water supply agreements and water-related permits using conventional and alternative strategies.

Whether you are seeking a permit or a contract or working on infrastructure projects, Campbell has diverse experience that can provide insights that identify opportunities, reduce risks, time, and costs and increase benefits.

Preparedness

Storms, droughts, and other natural hazards will come. Campbell can help you prepare by assisting with various planning, mitigation, and procurement strategies to help your community receive critical resources and additional benefits come rain or shine.

No matter where you are in your resilience planning process, Campbell can help your organization be better prepared.

MWBE

Finding ways to align the interests of government, prime contractors, and subcontractors can be rewarding and challenging.

CCL can assist you in developing minority and women business enterprise(MWBDE) programs and strategies to meet MWBE participation requirements in meaningful ways.
Service Sectors
Campbell serves a select variety of clients.

Project Owners

We help plan, procure, and improve projects related to water and resilience, serving as outside counsel, helping from RFEIs to rehabilitation, to enhance project benefits.

Local Governments & Districts

We assist with policy review, compliance, development, advocacy, and engagement, turning questions into discussions and then into policy and action.

Public-Private Partnerships

We help create win-win strategies to leverage public and private resources to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

Non-Profits

We help non-profits and associations develop strategies to align public and private interests to help keep people safe and make resources available and affordable.

Founder & Managing Attorney

Auggie Campbell

Augustus (“Auggie”) Campbell is an attorney, executive, and veteran. He served as the Executive Director of the Association of Water Board Directors—Texas and the President & CEO of the West Houston Association between 2015 and 2022. In these roles, he successfully advocated at local, state, and federal levels for better infrastructure, policy, and planning across the region and, in some matters, across Texas. He is a former Assistant City Attorney with the City of Houston, Texas and serving from 2008 until 2015 as the in-house counsel for contracts, ordinances, and other legal matters related to water and wastewater and most public works construction matters.

Experience & Personal Information

Representative Projects:
- Legal team lead on a progressive design-build agreement for a $1.7B water plant expansion (largest water plant in the US);
- Negotiated the largest joint finance agreement for a water project in Texas history;
- Developed and drafted documents creating, governing, and dissolving various districts and local government corporations;
- Developed and revised standard agreements for construction; water services, engineering services, non-disclosure, etc.;
- Successfully advocated for over $9B in federal funding, $2B in state funding, and over $3B in local funding for flood resilience;
- Drafted a new rate ordinance and related provisions and assisted related rate study and rate validation case;
- Managed and assisted with various regional studies and publications related to infrastructure planning and resilience;
- Administered impact fee and development agreement programs, including ordinance revisions and form revisions; and
- Negotiated 50+ year leases for water supply and a hydroelectric dam project on City of Houston reservoirs.

Selected Publications & Presentations:
STATE BAR OF TEXAS, Changing Face of Water Rights 2022, Droughts: The Dry, Dirty Story of Texas Water Law . . . Abridged (Feb. 2022);
ASSOCIATION OF WATER BD. DIRECTORS, Getting the Lead Out: EPA’s New Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (Jan. 2022);
TEXAS TECH SCHOOL OF LAW, Water Law Water Symposium: West Texas Water, Ethics (Nov. 2021);
CLE INTERNATIONAL, 24nd Annual Texas Water Law Conference, Hot Water Ethics (Sep. 2019).
Helping After Harvey: A Legal Framework for Recovery and Resilience, 5 TEX. A&M PROP. LAW J. 107 (Fall 2018).
HALFMOON SEMINARS, Legal Issues in Texas Professional Land Surveying, Understanding Riparian and Water Rights in Texas (June 2018).
STATE BAR OF TEXAS, Changing Face of Water Rights 2018, Between Flint and Hard Place: Legal Ethics in Texas Water Utilities (Feb. 2018, 2016, and 2015).
STATE BAR OF TEXAS, Changing Face of Water Rights 2015, Municipal Authority to Enforce TCEQ Water Quality Rules (Feb. 2015).
Underground, Downstream, and Increasingly Regulated: Dramatic Changes in Texas Water Law and Planning, 14 TEX. TECH ADMIN. LAW J. 278 (2013).
CLE INTERNATIONAL, Annual Texas Water Law Conference, Case Law Update (Sep. 2014, Oct. 2013, Sep.2012).
Day v. EEA, Houston Bar Association, Environmental Law Section (Mar. 2012).
CLE INTERNATIONAL, 21st Annual Texas Water Law Conference, City of Houston Water Planning Management (Sep. 2011).
Texas Watermasters: A Legal History and Analysis of Surface Water Rights Enforcement in Texas, 7 TEX.TECH ADMIN. LAW J. 143 (2006).
Education:
Doctorate of Jurisprudence Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas May 2006
- Managing Editor, TEXAS TECH ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JOURNAL
- Research Assistant to Prof. Gabriel Eckstein, Director of the Center for Water Law and Policy
Bachelor of Arts, Government, cum laude Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas December 2002

Personal:

Since college, Auggie has had a passion for water law, sustainability, and resilience. Auggie formed Campbell Legal PLLC to work with clients who share Auggie's passion for taking care of our communities and our region and state's most precious resources.

Auggie joined the United States Army Reserves before attending Texas Tech University School of Law on the Junell Academic Scholarship. After graduating law school in 2006, he served a year-long tour in Iraq and then was briefly in private practice in Houston before working at the City of Houston, West Houston Association, and the Association of Water Board Directors-Texas.

After Hurricane Harvey, Auggie co-founded Houston Stronger, a 501(c)(4).  Auggie served as the founding chair of Houston Stronger from November 2017 until November 2022, the month before he opened Campbell Legal.  Auggie also served as treasurer and volunteer campaign manager for the Fight Flooding PAC, which raised over $1.2 million to support Harris County’s record-setting $2.5B flood bond. Auggie has served on a variety of boards and currently serves on the Harris Galveston Subsidence District Board and as alternate vice-chair on the San Jacinto Regional Flood Planning Group. He remains active in Houston Stronger and non-profits associated with resilience.

Auggie’s also passionate about being a great dad for his daughter and son, running, reading, writing, and Texas archeology.

Community Involvement:
Harris Galveston Subsidence District | Board Director | April 2021-Present
Houston Wilderness | Advisory Board Member | November 2022-Present
Houston Stronger (a 501(c)(4)) | Founding Chairman | December 2017- October 2022
Houston-Galveston Area Council | Transportation Advisory Committee Member | Jan. 2016-May 2020
Memorial Management District | Board Director | Jan. 2016-May 2020
Houston Housing Collaborative | Collaborative Member | Mar. 2016-May 2020
Resilient Houston | Working Group Member| May 2019-Nov. 2019
Fight Flooding Political Action Committee | Treasure/Manager | Mar. 2018-Aug. 2018


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