Will has appeared in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies regularly since joining the Bar, and in a variety of matters, including:
- GE Vernova Turbine Blade Failure (helped establish $10.5 million community claims fund to compensate businesses and property owners for losses arising from offshore wind turbine blade failure) (July 11, 2025)
- Nantucket Offshore Wind Community Fund (helped create $16 million mitigation fund for local government with developer to offset adverse effects to National Historic Landmark following federal agency environmental permitting failures) (Nov. 10, 2023)
- Pine Island Property Holdings, LLC v. Beaufort County, SC, 2023-CP-070-1324 (Beaufort Co. Cir. Ct., SC July 5, 2023) (representing property owners in support of county council’s decision to uphold St. Helana Island’s Cultural Protection Overlay zoning)
- Board of Field Officers of the Fourth Brigade v. Members of City Council of the City of Charleston, SC, No. 2022-CP-1005-123 (Chas. Co. Cir. Ct., SC Jan. 1, 2024) (affirming city’s right to remove historic monument because of inapplicability of the Heritage Act)
- Preservation Society of Newport County v. Haaland, 1:23-cv-03510-APM (D.D.C. Nov. 11, 2023) (appealing the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s misapplication of National Historic Preservation Act and NEPA in offshore wind permitting related to adverse effects to visual resources and economic impacts)
- Sierra Club et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm’n, No. 20-1427 (D.C. Cir. Oct. 19, 2020) (represented Tribes in appeal of FERC’s decision to ignore concerns about location of cultural resources as required by federal law)
- National Parks Conservation Ass’n v. Semonite, 916 F.3d 1075 (D.C. Cir. 2019), amended on reh’g in part by 925 F.3d 500 (D.C. Cir. 2019) (remanding transmission line permit approved by U.S. Army Corps for failure to comply with the National Historic Preservation Act and NEPA)
- Rayellen Resources, Inc. v. New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee, 319 P.3d 639 (N.M. 2014) (reinstating listing of 400,000 acres of public lands of Mount Taylor as a registered cultural property significant to thirteen Tribes and Pueblos)
- Preservation Society of Charleston v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng’s, No. 2:12-cv-2942, 2013 WL 6488282 (D.S.C. Sept. 18, 2013) (remanding cruise ship terminal permit due to federal agency’s failure to comply with National Historic Preservation Act and NEPA, which protected the Charleston Historic District from unregulated cruise ship tourism)
- For a federally-recognized Tribe, opposed plans by a municipal board to construct water pumping facilities to prevent disturbing ancestral burials and cultural resources
- For municipalities with well-known historic preservation records, including Philadelphia, Nantucket, and Palm Beach, identified strengths and weaknesses of their local historic preservation ordinances, with suggestions of best practices for improvement
- For a nationwide preservation advocacy organization, surveyed and identified best practices for avoiding, minimizing, and mitigating harm to historic and cultural resources from utility-scale solar energy development
- Assisted the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a coalition of advocacy groups and Tribes in safeguarding the Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim and sacred sites near the confluence of the Colorado River and Havasu Creek