Energy, Natural Resource, Environmental and Public Land Law

• Project Planning, Permitting, Regulatory and Environmental Compliance
• Mineral Leasing and Related Transactions
• Land Exchanges
• Access and Right of Way Issues
• Royalty Valuation
• Appellate Advocacy
• Outreach and Governmental Affairs

EXPERIENCE
Lynne has broad experience representing clients in state and federal public land and administrative law matters.  Her clients include oil and gas companies, mining companies and institutional land and mineral owners.  She applies her extensive substantive knowledge of conventional and renewable energy development to assist her clients obtain and defend governmental approvals, develop public and private stakeholder relations, and resolve regulatory compliance issues.

Lynne served from March 2003 - April 2010 as Director, State of Wyoming, Office of State Lands & Investments.  As Director, Lynne administered five divisions responsible for managing approximately 4 million acres of state trust land and minerals and more than 7 grant and loan programs.  Lynne also chaired the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and served on Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Commission.

Prior to her service with the State, Lynne was an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, College of Law, teaching Oil and Gas Law, Mining Law, Agriculture Law, Constitutional Law and Legal Writing.  Lynne worked for the Honorable Wade Brorby on the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1991-92 and 1996-2001.  She worked as an associate at Holland and Hart in Cheyenne from 1992-1996, specializing in natural resources law.

EDUCATION:
University of Wyoming, College of Law (J.D. 1991, with Honors, Order of the Coif)
University of Wyoming (B.S. 1987, with Honors, Secondary Science Education; B.S. 1983, with Honors, Zoology)

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS:Wyoming (1991)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation

• 55th Annual Institute Program Committee, Public Lands Co-Chair, 2009
• Trustee, 2002

Petroleum Association of Wyoming
Mining Associates of Wyoming
Member, Ewing T. Kerr American Inns of Court
Cheyenne LEADS, Board Member 2011 – Present
First Interstate Bank, Advisory Board Member 2011 – Present
Cheyenne Rotary Club

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES:
Ownership of Oil, Gas and Mineral Rights Under Wyoming Law, HalfMoon Seminars (January 2009)
Royalty Valuation on Private Lands, Special Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (March 2003)
L. Boomgaarden & M.J. Hook, Environmental Regulation of the Mining Industry:  Chp. 173, Surface Management and Reclamation:  Hardrock and Other Non-Coal Mining (Matthew Bender 1996)
L. Boomgaarden & C. Breer, Surveying the Superfund Settlement Dilemma, 27 Land & Water L. Rev. 83 (1992)