Lawrence R. Liebesman is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Holland & Knight L.L.P., where he specializes in Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act issues. He was formerly a senior trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division. He filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the South Florida Water Management District in the South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians case, representing the Nationwide Public Projects Coalition, West Valley Water District of California, the Metropolitan Denver Water Authority of Colorado, the Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority of Georgia, and the Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Water Storage District of California. He was assisted in this Article by Patrick Tierney, a summer associate at Holland & Knight L.L.P. and a third-year student at George Mason University School of Law, and by Steve Kelton, an intern and third-year student at Vermont Law School.