• Appellate Advocacy
• Environmental and Sustainability
• Litigation

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 Cultural Protection Overlay zoning)
• Board of Field Officers of the Fourth Brigade v. Members of City County 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)
• 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)
• For a federally-recognized Native American tribe, secured rights to meaningful consultation by federal agency and oppose plans with a municipal board to construct water pumping facilities on the historic capital city of the tribe—to prevent disturbing ancestral burials and cultural resources
• For municipalities with well-known historic preservation records, 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

• South Carolina Bar
• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

• Vice President & Board Member, Ladew Topiary Gardens (2020 – present)
• Board Member, Valleys Planning Council (2018 – present)
• Collections Co-Chair & Governance Committee, Maryland Center for History and Culture (2022 – present)
• Vice Chair, New York Preservation Archive Project (2013 – 2024)
• Treasurer, Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (2012 – present)
• Board Member, Forever Maryland (2020 – 2023)
• Board Member, Historic Preservation and Education Fund, Racquet Club of Philadelphia (2015 – 2023)
• Board Member, The Preservation Society of Charleston (2004 – 2010)
• Lecturer, Columbia University (2013 – 2021)

• Siting Solar in Virginia:  Protecting Virginia’s Historic Landscapes While Meeting State’s Clean Energy Goals (2020)
• “Through A Legal Lens,” New York Preservation Archive Project Spring 2017 Newsletter (May 4, 2017)
• “How Preservation Law Lays the Groundwork for a ‘Movement of Yes,’” Forum Journal (Winter 2016)
• “New York City’s Landmarks Commission Wins Important Takings Lawsuit,” Preservation Leadership Forum (January 22, 2016)
• “Collaborating with the Army Corps to Save the Village of Zoar,” Forum Journal (Winter 2015)
• “Saving Historic Places from Unregulated Cruise Tourism:  Setting the Record Straight,” Preservation Leadership Forum (February 6, 2015)
• “Proposed Tower Threatens Palisades,” Preservation Leadership Forum (April 18, 2014)
• “Preservationists Claim Major Victory in Fight to Protect Mount Taylor,” Preservation Leadership Forum (February 20, 2014)
• Preserving Native American Places:  A Guide to Federal Law and Policies that Help Protect Cultural Resources and Sacred Sites (2014)
• “Chicago Landmarks Ordinance Upheld,” Preservation Leadership Forum (October 11, 2013)
• “Preservation Victory Over Charleston Cruise Ship Terminal,” Preservation Leadership Forum (Sept. 26, 2013)
• Panelist, “Protect Our Cultural Heritage from Section 106 Rollbacks,” Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC Webinar  (March 7, 2025)
• Keynote Speaker, “From the Lowcountry to the Grand Canyon:  Historic Preservation as a Land Conservation Tool,” Spring Island Trust Talk, Spring Island, SC (February 13, 2025)
• Panelist, “Local Preservation Dialogues: Climate Resilience and Financial Incentives,” PastForward, National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Orleans, LA (October 29, 2024)
• Panelist, “Renewable Energy and Historic Preservation,” National Preservation Law Conference, Washington, DC (September 12, 2024)
• Presenter, “Offshore Wind Development:  Protecting Tribal Resources and Creating Community Benefits,” National Conference of American Indians, Sacramento, CA (November 4, 2022)
• Presenter, “Palm Beach’s Historic Preservation Ordinance:  Baseline Review of Current Strengths, Opportunities for Further Study,” Historic District Educational Symposium, Town of Palm Beach & Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL (Decenber 2019)
• Presenter, “Preservation Law Update,” PastForward, National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA (November 2018)
• Presenter, “New Urbanism and Historic Preservation, Historic Preservation in the 21st Century:  Protecting Built and Natural Environments,” Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Charlottesville, VA (November 2, 2018)
• Moderator, “Through the Legal Lens:  Lawyers Who Shaped NYC’s Landmarks Law Explore its Past, Present, and Future,” New York Landmarks Conservancy, New York Preservation Archive Project, and Historic Districts Council, New York, NY (November 9, 2017)
• Keynote Speaker, “A Baseline Review of Philadelphia’s Local Preservation Ordinance,” Mayor’s Historic Preservation Task Force Public Meeting Philadelphia, PA (October 19, 2017)
• Keynote Speaker, “From Charleston to the Grand Canyon: Using Preservation Law to Protect Historic Places and Cultural Landscapes,” Drayton Hall Distinguished Speaker Series, Charleston, SC (March 21, 2017)
• Co-Presenter, “The Landscape of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock Sioux Tribe vs. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,” National Trust Forum Webinar (Oct. 25, 2016)
• Keynote Speaker, “From Annapolis to Charleston:  Protecting Cultural Heritage through Local Law,” Legal Symposium:  Creating, Defending, & Enforcing a Strong Historic Preservation Ordinance; Maryland Association of Historic District Commissions Annapolis, MD (June 11, 2016)
• Panelist, National Practices, “History in the Making:  New York City’s Landmarks Law at 50,” NYC Landmarks Commission & Harvard University Graduate School of Design, New York, NY (October 26, 2015)
• Presenter, “Creative Approaches to Using Law to Protect Historic Places, in Beyond the Five Boroughs:  International Preservation Insights,” The Fitch Forum, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, New York, NY (October 17, 2015)
• Presenter, “What is the Value of Historic Preservation:  Assessing Preservation Tax Credits in the U.S. & Abroad,” American Bar Association Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee, Section of International Law 2015 Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C. (May 1, 2015)
• Presenter, “The Adverse Effects of Unregulated Cruise Tourism and the Venice and Charleston Experience,” National Trust for Historic Preservation and Georgetown University Law Center 2015 National Preservation Law Conference, Washington, D.C. (February 25, 2015)
• Presenter, “The Legal Framework for Preserving the Pacific’s World War II-Era Past,” The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA (October 2, 2014)
• Presenter, “The State of Preservation Law—A National Perspective,” Preservation Law & Policy:  Crises of Legitimacy (University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, PA (November 8, 2013)
• Presenter, “Regulatory Takings Law and Historic Preservation,” University of Pennsylvania School of Design Historic Preservation Program, Philadelphia, PA (March 2, 2013)
• Moderator & Presenter, Policy Tools Panel, “Harboring Tourism:  A Symposium on Cruise Ships in Historic Port Communities,” World Monuments Fund, National Trust for Historic Preservation, & Preservation Society of Charleston, Charleston, SC (February 6, 2013)
• Presenter, “The Legal Framework for Preserving the Pacific’s World War II-Era Past,” The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation Annual Conference, Washington, DC (November 9, 2012)
• Presenter, “Regulatory Takings Law and Historic Preservation,” University of Pennsylvania School of Design Historic Preservation Program, Philadelphia, PA (March 2, 2012)
• Presenter, “Federalism and Preservation Law:  A Call for Local Reform,” Association for Law, Property, and Society 2nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (March 2011)
• Presenter, “Integrating Form-Based Codes in Historic Preservation Districts,” Southeastern Legal Scholars Program, Charleston, SC (October 2010)
• Presenter, Emerging Patterns in Cultural Property Law, New Scholar Colloquia, Southeastern Association of Law Schools 62nd Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, FL (August 2010)
• Presenter, “The Effects of Smart Growth on the Preservation of Historic Resources,” Session on Managing the American Dream:  Land Use and the Politics of Growth after the Mortgage Crisis, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (May 28, 2010)
• Presenter, “A Whole New Land Use Law:  Teaching New Urbanism, Smart Growth, Green Building, and the Laws that Govern Them,” 61st Annual Meeting, Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Palm Beach, FL (August 5, 2009)