Experience

• Mr. Ingles’s experience includes representing clients facing complex commercial disputes, state and federal enforcement actions and negotiations, trademark litigation, Endangered Species Act citizen suits, public lands litigation, water rights litigation, energy project permitting challenges, state Attorneys General investigations into ESG standards, climate change litigation, employment disputes for the sports and gaming industry, and a wide range of appellate issues involving patents, government contracts, and administrative law. He has also advised clients in the acquisition, permitting, and operation of major energy developments including natural gas, geothermal, wind, and solar projects.

  Representative matters include: 

  • Represent a major geothermal energy developer in seeking lower rent and royalty rates for a new development on public land. 
  • Represent a major energy company in climate change litigation spanning dozens of separate cases. 
  • Assist a national retailer in navigating inquiries from state Attorneys General into the retailer’s ESG practices. 
  • Represent a major transportation company in a complex commercial and environmental litigation brought by a state Attorney General. 
  • Represent a global social media company in multidistrict litigation involving private and government parties.
  • Advise on permitting and litigation issues arising for a major solar development in Colorado. 
  • Advise on permitting and litigation issues arising for a significant offshore wind development. 
  • Represent a major renewable energy developer in a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower dispute. 
  • Advise a major vehicle manufacturer on state and federal investigations into the manufacturer’s product. 
  • Represent a major resort and hotel chain in an Endangered Species Act dispute. 
  • Represent one of the nation’s largest sports betting companies in an employment dispute involving the enforceability of non-compete agreements as applied to company executives. 
  • Advise on the acquisition of a series of natural gas facilities by a major energy company. 
  • Advise a chemical corporation on a natural resources damages investigation carried about the United States Department of the Interior. 
  • Represent a major technology company in a government contracting appeal before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. 
  • Represent a major media streaming service in a patent appeal before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. 
  • Represent one of the largest California irrigation districts in a sprawling water rights dispute involving multiple federal agencies, including the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Bureau of Reclamation. 
  • Advise a plant biomass company on a variety of Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act compliance issues. 
  • Advise one of the nation’s largest laboratory developers on issues related to construction restrictions, alleged torts, and drone surveillance. 
  • Represent an individual in a beach rights dispute involving complex issues such as the interrelationship between Massachusetts public lands law and tidal law. 
  • Represent a coal miner on an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in which the miner sought to defend his award of black lunch benefits. 
  • Represent a major telecommunications conglomerate in a billion-dollar trademark litigation. 
  • Represent a major financial institution in a lawsuit brought by investors regarding the pricing of life insurance policies.