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Practice Areas: Water Law; Environmental Law; Mining Law

Additional Information: State Bar of New Mexico (Member, Board of Directors, Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Section, 1985-1988, Chair, 1986-1987; Member, 1989-1996 and Chair, 1992-1996, State Bar Natural Resources Specialty Committee); American Bar Association (Member, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources). Member, American Inns of Court (Master).

Biography: Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief: Natural Resources Journal, 1974-1975; Editor-in-Chief: New Mexico Law Review, 1974-1975. Most Outstanding Student of Law School Class, 1975. Fellow, American-Scandinavian Foundation, Sweden, 1970-1971. Fulbright-Hays Grantee, Sweden, 1976-1977. Co-Author: with Professor Ulf Bernitz, Consumer Protection in Sweden: Legislation, Institutions and Practice, University of Stockholm, 2d. ed., 1986; with Stephen E. Flechner, "Environmental Laws and Regulations Governing Gold Mining in the West�Current Issues," 36 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst., Ch. 5 (1990). Law Clerk to Justice Samuel Z. Montoya, New Mexico Supreme Court, 1975-1976. Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America, 1989�; Chambers USA (National Ranking), 2004. Co-Chair, Annual New Mexico Water Law Conference, 1993�. Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Kansas, Counsel of Record: Kansas v. Colo., U.S. Supreme Court, No. 105, Orig., 1991�; Counsel of Record; Kansas v. Neb. & Colo. , U.S. Sup. Ct., No. 126, Orig., 1998-2003; Trustee, Rocky Mt. Min. L. Foundation, 2000�.

Languages: Swedish

Reported Cases: Kansas v. Colorado, 533 U.S. 1 (2001); Kansas v. Colorado, 514 U.S. 673 (1995); El Vadito de los Cerrillos Water Users Ass'n v. Public Serv. Comm'n, 115 N.M. 784, 858 P.2d 1263 (1993); United States v. Bluewater-Toltec Irr. Dist., 806 F.2d 986 (10th Cir. 1986); Angel Fire Corp. v. C.S. Cattle Co., 96 N.M. 651, 634 P.2d

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Firm Members: Sarah Singleton Stephen Hamilton Edmund Kendrick Gary Kilpatric