Richard Roos-Collins
Principal
Richard Roos-Collins is Principal in the Water and Power Law Group. He specializes in settlements in complex cases involving multiple parties, interests, and laws. He has drafted and negotiated more than 75 such settlements. These include: the Klamath Basin Restoration and Hydropower Agreements, the Restoration Settlement in the Mono Lake Cases, and the Land Conservation Commitment in the bankruptcy reorganization of Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Richard serves as General Counsel to the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, which just completed the largest dam removal in history. He serves as special counsel to public agencies that own and seek to modernize water supply and power assets, as well as tribes in matters to realize their treaty and other time-immemorial rights in water resources.
He is Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco Law School (2010 – ). He is a member of the Council of Legal Advisors, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara (2016 – ).
He was co-awardee of the American Council of Engineering Companies’ Grand Conceptor Award (2026) and the International Federation of Engineering Companies’ Global Excellence Award, each awarded to recognize the Klamath project. He received the American Bar Association’s Award for Excellence in Environmental and Resources Stewardship (2007), the Mono Lake Committee’s Defender of the Trust Award (2009), and the American Fisheries Society’s Carl B. Sullivan Fishery Conservation Award (2010).
Richard was Legal Director, Natural Heritage Institute (1991 – 2011); Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice (1989 – 1991); and Attorney-Advisor, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1986 – 1989). He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., honors, 1986) and Princeton University (B.A., high honors, 1975).
Chris Termyn
Legal Counsel
Christian Termyn supports Water and Power Law Group as Of Counsel. He is an energy attorney focused on the regulatory frameworks, environmental review, permitting, and transactional matters surrounding complex water and energy infrastructure. His work includes advising on the historic restoration of the Klamath River through the removal of four dams, securing required FERC and state environmental approvals. Christian also counsels developers of offshore and onshore wind, solar, hydropower and energy storage assets on public and private lands. He also regularly helps clients navigate Federal Indian law, tribal consultation, and the legal frameworks protecting historic and cultural resources.
Christian volunteers his time to several environmental and community organizations, currently serving on the Legal Committee for the Massachusetts Rivers Alliance, the Board of Directors for the Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore, and the Board of Directors for the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. He previously served on the inaugural Board of Directors for the University Marine Energy Research Community.
Christian received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law. He earned his B.A., with distinction, from Yale University.