Natalie Maloney

Natalie represents commercial and industrial property owners in litigation and administrative appeals across Texas. Her practice encompasses a wide range of property types including hotel, retail, multi-family, office, warehouse, distribution center, natural gas pipeline, and renewable energy. Natalie understands the legal issues concerning the valuation of renewable energy property, and other complex property types, under the Texas Property Tax Code.

She is a skilled negotiator with extensive experience settling disputes with appraisal districts and their attorneys. Her approach is client centered with a focus on communication, collaboration, and advocacy.

Natalie began her career in property tax in 2002, at a boutique property tax law firm in Austin, Texas, representing commercial property owners in valuation lawsuits. Natalie has practiced property tax law with Lorri Michel and Shane Rogers since 2015. She previously served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas in the Taxation Division. There, she represented the Comptroller of Public Accounts in lawsuits involving sales tax, insurance premium tax, hotel occupancy tax, and challenges to the Comptroller’s property value study, which estimates a school district’s taxable property value to ensure equitable distribution of state funding for public education while measuring appraisal district performance.

Natalie earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her law degree, cum laude, from the University of Houston Law Center, where she was a member of the Order of the Barons honor society and a Contributing Editor of the Journal of Texas Consumer Law.

Natalie has been a speaker on property tax issues at the 2024 ABA/IPT Advanced Tax Seminar, Renewable Energy Panel; 2023 TXCPA Austin Tax Conference, Property Tax Overview; 2023 LAT Seminars, Texas Property Tax Basics; and 2022 Texas State Bar Property Tax Symposium, Case Law Update.

Natalie is a member of the State Bar of Texas; Texas Association of Property Tax Professionals; Institute for Professionals in Taxation; Appraisal Institute – Affiliate Member; Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association; Barbara Jordan American Inn of Court; Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation; and Texas Exes. She was recognized as a 2006 Texas Rising Star by Law & Politics Magazine.

Natalie is a frequent volunteer at her children’s schools, where she has served on the executive board of the PTA as Treasurer and Treasurer Elect of O Henry Middle School PTA and Vice President-Budget of Bryker Woods Elementary School PTA. When not practicing law, Natalie enjoys spending time with her family in Austin’s great outdoors.