Lisa Kirschner is a shareholder and a member of the Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources department. Her practice centers on environmental matters, with a focus on compliance with local, state and federal water quality laws and regulations. She has teamed with clients to obtain, comply with and defend permits involving all aspects of water quality regulation, including surface and groundwater discharge, underground injection, municipal water supply and treatment, and wetlands. She has negotiated favorable settlement agreements on behalf of clients faced with water quality enforcement actions at both the state and federal level. Ms. Kirschner also monitors the constantly evolving maze of state and federal water quality regulations, and helps clients shape those regulations by drafting and submitting comments on their behalf. She recently drafted briefs supporting a petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court on a significant water quality permitting issue.
Ms. Kirschner writes and speaks extensively on water quality-related topics. She was a member of the University of Denver Law Review, and was a Joe Rudd Scholar and finalist in the 1989 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation's Natural Resource Writing Competition.
Related Activities and Skills:
Utah State Bar - Chair of the Natural Resource and Environmental Law Section (2005-2006)
American Bar Association - Natural Resources and Environmental Law Sections; Editor of the Natural Resources & Environment Journal
U.S. Supreme Court, 2003 U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 2003 U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 1990 U.S. District Court District of Utah, 1990 Utah, 1990
University of Denver College of Law, Denver, Colorado,
1990 J.D.University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona,
1984 M.S., Master of ScienceWilliams College,
1981 B.A.
Ski Industry Response to Global Warming, (co-author), ABA Natural Resources & Environment, Summer, 2007
What's Up with Water, Air and Post-Aviall Jurisprudence?, (co-author), Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Summer, 2006
The Songhua River Spill: China's Pollution Crisis, (co-author), ABA Natural Resources & Environment, Spring, 2006
Groundwater and the CWA, How Far Will The Ninth Circuit Go?, ABA Natural Resources & Environment, Spring, 2005
Classes/Seminars Taught:
Utah Water Law "Update on Water Quality Permitting for Transfers," CLE International, October 2006"Administration And Enforcement of The Wetlands Program in Utah," Lorman Education Services, December 1, 2005"Current Issues In Storm Water Regulation In Utah," Lorman Education Services, November 15, 2005"Utah Water Law Water Quality Update," Salt Lake City, October, 2005
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