Lear & Lear
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Law
Offices
Firm
Profile
Lear
& Lear
is a boutique emphasizing oil and gas, public lands, mining,
environmental, railroad, and international transactions. Clients
range from major oil companies to small, local exploration companies,
mining companies, and the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Lear &
Lear attorneys are licensed in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, California,
and Washington, D.C., 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 specialties.
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; environmental policy,
compliance, and litigation; condemnation; mineral financing; resource
development on Indian lands; water rights; general railroad
litigation; real estate; contract and environmental cleanup.
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.
Title
Practice. Title examinations for property acquisitions
and drilling and production operations underpin our practice. We
strive to provide a competitive advantage to our clients because we
have trained new lawyers and paralegal assistants to perform stand-up
title examinations and render acquisition, drilling, division order,
and financing title opinions on-site. Title opinions cover not only
surface and mineral title, as applicable, but address production
histories to ensure continued validity of leases, land use and
regulatory issues that might limit operations on the grounds, and
other matters that are not traditionally found in title opinions, but
that are critical to the commencement of operations. Senior attorneys
review the work and release the opinions.
Billing
Practices and Rates. Most clients prefer legal services
to be rendered on an hourly basis. Increasingly, however, we find
that alternative billing arrangements meet client needs more readily.
Alternative billings procedures might include volume discounts and
blended rates. We encourage you to explore alternative structures
with us. A schedule of rates is availabe upon written request. We
send statements monthly for services rendered and costs incurred in
the preceding month. Statements are due upon receipt.
Firm
Members. Attorneys and legal assistants and their primary
areas of practice are:
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Oil, gas, and mining; public lands; Indian law |
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Environmental policy; real property |
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General litigation; railroads; environmental law |
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Oil, gas, and mining; public lands; Indian law |
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Oil, gas, and mining; public lands; Indian law |
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