As both a defense trial attorney and counselor, Watson represents clients in a variety of complex commercial cases, including breach of contract actions, real estate and land development, special district litigation, construction disputes, securities litigation, public land and natural resources law, mining, oil and gas, wildlife, toxic tort, Superfund, and air, water and waste environmental cases. He advises landowners, as well as facility owners and operators on increasingly complex federal, state and local environmental, health and safety, and land use regulations and ordinances