Steve Quarles

Steve Quarles is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Nossaman LLP. His practice focuses on the Endangered Species Act, Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act and other federal wildlife laws; federal land resources; and renewable energy. Mr. Quarles serves a wide range of clients, including companies and trade associations, states and local governments, and environmental organizations. His practice runs the gamut of strategic and transactional counseling, representation before federal agencies and the Congress, and litigation (including seminal Supreme Court cases on endangered species and federal land planning (Sweet Home and Ohio Forestry, respectively)). Mr. Quarles previously served as Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior, special counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, member of the Board of Mineral and Energy Resources of the National Academy of Sciences, and Assistant to the Representative, Ford Foundation, Brazil. He is a board member of Bat Conservation International, NatureServe, National Wildlife Refuge Association, Trumpeter Swan Society, and Maryland Environmental Trust. Mr. Quarles is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, and studied and taught at Aligarh Muslim University, India, under a Fulbright grant.