Practice Areas - Business Litigation
- Trial Practice
- Public Law
- Public Sector Disputes
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- Government Relations
- Land Use Projects and Disputes
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| Contact Info | Telephone: 713-547-2556
Fax: 713-547-5575
http://www.haynesboone.com/sandy_hellums/
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| University | Wellesley College, B.A., American Studies, cum laude, 1995; University of Houston, M.A., Political Science, 1999 |
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| Law School | College of William & Mary, J.D., 2002 |
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| Admitted | 2002, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit |
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| Memberships | Houston and American (Member, Sections on: State and Local Government Law; Energy Litigation; Editorial Board, Energy Litigiation Journal, 2008-2009) Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Texas Young Lawyers Association; Houston Young Lawyers Association. |
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| Biography | Managing Editor, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. Publications: "Who's the Boss: Determining Your True Client When Representing a Governmental Entity," Address before Best Practices for Public Sector Lawyers, co-author with Casey Wallace, (July 2010); "Texas Supreme Court Resets Public Information Act Deadline," Hous. Lawyer, co-author with Casey Wallace, Mar./Apr. 2010, at 51; Co-contributor to chapter on Cleantech Financing in legal treatise Energy Law and Transactions, 2009; "Eminent Domain and the 2009 Texas Legislature," Haynes and Boone Client Alert, Feb. 9, 2009; "Introduction to Discovery," Address before Haynes and Boone First-Year Litigation Training, Sept. 24, 2008; "The ABCs of the Use of Outside Counsel," Address before Suing and Defending Governmental Entities Boot Camp, co-author with Casey Wallace, (July 23, 2008); "A Long and Winding Road: Federal Funding for Interstate Toll Roads," 40 THE URBAN LAWYER 3, 495 (Summer 2008), co-author with Casey Wallace; "Sovereign Immunity on Quantum Meruit Claims," HOUS. LAWYER, Nov./Dec. 2007, at 32, co-author with Casey Wallace; Note, "Bits and Bytes: The Carnivore Initiative and the Search and Seizure of Electronic Mail," 10 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 827, 2002; "Privacy Law and the Challenge of New Communications Technologies: An Analysis of Encryption and Digital Telephony," (1999) (unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Houston) (on file with the University of Houston Library). Briefing Attorney to the Honorable Leslie Brock Yates, Fourteenth Court of Appeals, Houston, Texas, 2002-2003. Member, City of Sugar Land Planning and Zoning Commissioner. Member, City of Sugar Land Mobility Advisory Counsel. Member, CSTEM Board of Directors. Member, Greater Houston Partnership Government Relations and Transportation Committee. Member, United Way of Texas Gulf Coast's Young Leaders. Member, Houston Zoo Asante Society. Committee Member, Greater Houston Partnership Government Relations and Transportation. Recreation Board, City of Sugar Land Parks and Recreation Board, 2008-2009. Member, City of Sugar Land Charter Review Commission, 2008. Advisory Board Member, Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Young Leaders, United Way of Greater Houston. Selected for inclusion in Texas Super Lawyers - Rising Stars Edition (2010-2011). Commissioned by Governor Perry as Yellow Rose of Texas, 2010. Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation. |
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| ISLN | 919314090 |
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| Transactions | Advised Gulf Coast Rail District on engineering and feasibility agreements; Advised construction company on transportation regulations and financing for county wide toll road project; Advised community college on obtaining county wide permitting and traffic impact mitigation; Advised municipality regarding planning and zoning restrictions on natural gas pipeline; Advised oil production company in inverse condemnation action against home-rule city involving municipal ordinances regarding drilling; Advised water utility regarding contractual immunity issues and eminent domain powers; Conducted multi-state legislative analysis on building codes and regulations; Conducted multi-state legislative analysis of eminent domain procedures and condemnation insurance; Represent gas utility in inverse condemnation against trespass action against homeowners association; Obtained favorable trial outcome for local governmental entity in public stadium construction defect dispute; Defeated class certification and obtained dismissal of Fair Labor Standards Act action on behalf of local public hospital district; Prosecuted code violations and misdemeanors for the City of Houston Municipal Courts as a volunteer prosecutor. |
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New Requirements Under Texas Eminent Domain LawsKatharine D. David,Sandy D. Hellums,Michael A. Stafford, September 6, 2011 The 2011 Texas Legislature adopted broad changes to eminent domain laws that take effect on September 1, 2011. Under the new law, public and private entities that hold condemnation power face important new requirements and deadlines. While governmental entities have numerous new procedural hurdles,...
Nothing Personal: Supreme Court Denies Corporate Privacy Exception under FOIAKatharine D. David,Sandy D. Hellums,Casey T. Wallace,Thomas J. Williams, March 9, 2011 Corporate documents provided to the government as part of an investigation of the company are not excepted from disclosure for “personal privacy” purposes under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In Federal Communications Comm. v. AT&T Inc., the Supreme Court held AT&T did not have... |
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