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Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP has a long history of involvement in natural resources law and has developed broad-based mining, oil and gas, and environmental law practices. We are regularly recognized as a premier natural resources firm in the region. As the country's energy focus expands to include hydraulically fractured natural gas, renewable energy, and nuclear industries, the Rocky Mountain West will continue to be a hotbed of energy production.
Attorneys at DGS are experienced in all types of matters involving natural resources, including brownfields, coalbed methane development, environmental law, mining, oil and gas, public lands, renewable and alternative energy, toxic tort litigation, uranium mining and development, and water law.
We offer clients extensive knowledge in transactions, permitting, public lands issues, health and safety concerns, regulatory compliance, legislation, litigation, and other aspects related to natural resources concerns.
Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP has a long and successful history of natural resources litigation before administrative agencies and courts at all levels. We practice before the Interior Board of Land Appeals, state oil and gas commissions, and mining reclamation boards, and we handle natural resources cases before state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the highest state courts and the United States Supreme Court. Our experience in this area also includes arbitration of price renegotiations, royalty claims, class actions, and other matters arising under natural resource contracts. Our clients are predominantly companies and individuals involved in the development of natural resources, including oil and gas, precious metals, coal, uranium, industrial minerals, wind and solar, and water. Adverse parties often include government agencies, competitors in the clientโs industry, royalty owners, vendors or contractors, neighboring landowners, and environmental groups.
Our lawyers handle cases involving a wide range of issues that can arise in natural resources development. They seek to protect our clientโs ability to pursue their natural resource projects, obtain surface access, obtain or defend leases, challenge or defend agency actions, and quiet title. They handle disputes over the interpretation and performance of agreements, including joint operating agreements, leases, surface use agreements, supply contracts, and agreements with vendors and contractors. Disputes often include issues regarding the allocation of revenues and costs among participants in a project. Defending royalty claims, as well as claims by neighboring landowners for nuisance, trespass, and interference with wells (water or oil and gas), are an important part of the natural resources litigation practice. Many of our cases concern the interpretation and application of NEPA, FLPMA, the Mineral Leasing Act, the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act, the National Forest Management Act, MSHA, SMCRA, federal land grant statutes, the Endangered Species Act, as well as other statutes and regulations affecting the development of natural resources on public and/or private lands.
Clients benefit from our lawyersโ in-depth knowledge of natural resource industries and the issues that concern those industries. In appropriate cases, our trial lawyer will team up with one of our business lawyers, who is a daily participant in the particular natural resource industry. Our lawyers are also active in industry trade associations as well as groups like The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law that connect and inform outside and in-house lawyers.
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