Stephanie Barber-Renteria – Partner
PRACTICE FOCUS: Stephanie’s practice focuses on natural resources and public lands law with an emphasis on the exploration, permitting and production of oil and gas. She conducts title examinations and prepares drilling, lease acquisition, and division order opinions for fee, federal, Indian, and state lands. She also has experience in administrative hearings and appeals and natural resources litigation. Stephanie also assists clients with drafting and negotiating transactional agreements and real property related instruments.
EDUCATION: Temple University School of Law (J.D., 2000)
Staff Member, Environmental Law and Technology Journal (1998-1999)
- University of Utah (B. A., Sociology, Women’s Studies, 1997)
COURT ADMISSIONS:
- Utah Supreme Court
- Supreme Court of California
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- United States Court of Federal Claims
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES:
- Utah State Bar Association
- California Bar Association
- Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
- Utah Association of Professional Landmen
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Utah
- School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (2008 – 2011)
- Associate, Snell & Wilmer, Salt Lake City, Utah (2001-2001)
- Law Clerk, Utah Supreme Court, Justice Michael J. Wilkins (2000-2001)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- Co-Author of Article “Post-Production Costs” – Presented at 2003 Conference for the National Association of Division Order Analysts
- Co-Author of Article “Split Estates and Severed Minerals: Rights of Access and Surface Use After the Divorce” –Presented at the 2004 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Annual Institute
