Firm Profile
Lear & Lear is a boutique emphasizing oil and gas, public lands, and mining transactions. Clients range from major oil companies to small, local exploration companies, and mining companies. Lear & Lear attorneys are licensed in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, the US Supreme Court, the United States Court of Claims, and before courts of the Northern Ute Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation. Lear & Lear opened its offices in December 2001. Its founders and firm members have a combined 100 years experience with the practice areas.
Practice Areas - Practice areas include acquisition, exploration, permitting, and production of oil and gas and mining properties; federal, Indian, and state regulatory compliance; complex title examinations and acquisition due diligence; oil and gas conservation matters, including, but not limited to, spacing, forced pooling, gas flaring, secondary recovery, injection wells, bonding, compulsory unitization, and royalty payment compliance; pipeline acquisition and permitting; mineral taxation; administrative hearings and appeals, natural resources litigation and appeals; condemnation; mineral financing; resource development on Indian lands; water rights; real estate.
Trade Affiliations - Firm members are active in the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, American Association of Professional Landmen, Utah Petroleum Association, and Petroleum Association of Wyoming.