Grace Caroline Mahan

Grace provides regulatory and litigation guidance to the firm’s Environment & Product Regulation clients. From a regulatory standpoint, she counsels clients on consumer and commercial products, and industrial health and safety issues. As a litigator, Grace handles matters including large-scale agency actions.

Representative Matters

• Researched and wrote memoranda on issues including mineral rights on public lands, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and the Administrative Procedure Act.
• Reviewed and edited proposal regulations concerning genetically modified organism (GMO) food labeling throughout the rulemaking process.
• Generated guidance materials on the regulations governing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) responsibilities during natural disasters.
• Consults on product and service-related requirements arising under building, energy, and safety codes; the Clean Air Act (CAA); and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA).

Professional Experience

• Private law practice (2018)
• Law Clerk, USDA, Office of the General Counsel (2017)
• Intern for the Honorable Nancy M. Koenig, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (2015)
• Law Clerk, Travis County Attorney’s Office (2015)
• Transgenic Laboratory Technician/Field Worker, USDA, Agricultural Research Service (2008-2014)