Elizabeth Scruggs’s experience includes civil litigation, corporate and labor law, insurance, indemnity, compliance, government procurement, and all other aspects of contract work relevant to the energy and construction fields.
Her litigation experience is focused on contractual disputes and negotiations as well as complex insurance and jurisdiction disputes. She currently assists with the firm’s litigation practice, commercial transactions practice, and government contract practice. Elizabeth has extensive experience with federal worker’s compensation litigation under the Defense Base Act which involved military contractors and governmental entities, i.e., the Department of Defense and the Department of Labor. She also has a strong transactional background in regulatory compliance and public financing for MUD districts as well as a previous career in energy reliability standards for electric power utility companies (NERC and CIP standards).
She graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Bioenvironmental Science in 2016, and later graduated magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas in 2021. During law school, she was president of the Real Estate and Construction Law Society and student editor for the Construction Law Journal.
Elizabeth serves as Associate General Counsel at Kuiper Law Firm, in which she advises attorneys and firm administration on corporate regulatory and compliance matters including oversight of employment terms, policies, compliance with state and federal employment laws. Additionally, she assists in negotiating and drafting oil and gas joint venture agreements, lease agreements, water rights agreements, deeds, assignments, service rights agreements, joint operating agreements, master service agreements, easements, and real estate agreements.
Elizabeth also volunteers for She’s the First, a non-profit that supports girls’ access to education and mentorship programs globally.
Houston, TX
- Texas
Condemnation; Regulatory Compliance; Commercial Collections; Employment Law; Probate and Estates; Civil Litigation
Texas A&M University (B.S.)
South Texas College of Law Houston (J.D.)