Our POA Attorneys:
Connie Niemann Heyer, Partner
Connie is a native of Austin and graduated from The University of Texas, where she earned four degrees. She holds undergraduate degrees from UT-Austin in Plan II and in Honors Business. While attending UT she was inducted into several academic honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa. She also has an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at UT-Austin, and a law degree from The University of Texas School of Law in Austin. While attending law school, she was the administrative editor of the Texas International Law Journal.
As a partner in Niemann & Heyer, L.L.P., Connie serves as legal counsel and lobbyist for the Texas Self Storage Association and is a board member of Texas Community Association Advocates. Connie is also a past lobbyist of Texas Community Associations Institute, a nation-wide non-profit trade organization representing the interests of property owners associations and their members. She is a former President of, and is currently on the board of, the Austin Chapter of the Community Associations Institute. Her practice focuses primarily on representation of property owners associations.
Connie also served as associate legal counsel to the Texas Apartment Association and Texas Building Owners and Managers Association for 10 years before retiring from this area of her practice to focus almost exclusively on representation of property owners associations.
William M. Heyer, Partner
William is a native of Austin and graduated with honors from Princeton University. After working for the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. as a legislative aide he returned to Austin and received his law degree with honors from The University of Texas School of Law in 1994. Mr. Heyer also was named a member of the Order of the Coif, a national legal honors society.
Immediately after law school, he served as a briefing attorney to a justice on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Mr. Heyer then co-founded, and served as legal counsel for, an independent oil and gas exploration company active in the coastal bend region of Texas. He has also been involved in, and continues to be involved in, various residential development projects in both Texas and Arizona.
Since returning to legal work full-time, Mr. Heyer has worked exclusively for Niemann & Heyer, providing a wide array of legal services to homeowner and condominium associations located in and around Austin and central Texas.
Fred Niemann, Jr., Partner
Fred Niemann, Jr. has been in continuous practice with Niemann & Heyer (and it’s predecessor firm, Niemann & Niemann) since graduating from the University of Texas Law School in 1977. He has a legislative practice which concentrates on laws affecting the alcoholic beverage industry and the health care industry, specifically the profession of optometry. He serves as general counsel to several trade and professional associations, assisting with their day-to-day operations and their grass roots political efforts. He works closely with his clients and their legislative teams to monitor and influence legislative action affecting his clients. He currently is not seeking new clients.
Jessica Crass, Associate
Jessica is from San Diego, California and graduated with honors from Pepperdine University with a degree in International Business. She received her law degree from the University of Texas School of Law as a Townes-Rice Scholar (a full scholarship awarded solely on the basis of merit without regard to financial need). She served as an advanced student clinician for UT Law’s Actual Innocence Clinic and the Travis County District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit. She was also a semifinalist in the Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell Mock Trial competition.
Jessica’s experience includes both litigation and transactional work. She has served as a law clerk with the Judge Advocate Corps attorneys for the Texas Army National Guard at Camp Mabry, the utilities and municipalities practice groups for a mid-size Austin firm, and the Deputy General Counsel of a national corporation primarily contracting with the Department of Defense.