Experience

Stephen Kelly focuses his practice on construction and development, including contract drafting and negotiating and construction-related litigation. He has represented private and public owners, developers, contractors and designers in many facets of development and construction law.

Stephen also represents clients in a variety of Federal Indian law matters. Before joining the firm, he served for nine years as staff attorney for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, acting as lead counsel on many construction and development projects and representing the Tribes regularly in tribal and state court.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Treasurer, Executive Committee, Indian Law Section, Oregon State Bar

Presentations and Publications

• Doing Business With the Government, coauthor, Advising Oregon Businesses, 2009 Supplement
• The New AIA and Other Standard Contracts: The Top Terms to Negotiate, The Seminar Group, Portland, Oregon, 2009
• Doing Business With Indian Tribes, Stoel Rives, Portland, Oregon, 2009
• Liquidated Damages, coauthor, Construction Law Handbook, Second Edition, 2009
• Outlook, Cultural Resources, Vol. 9, No. 2, editor, 2008
• Cultural Resource Protection in the United States, Open Society Institute, Portland, Oregon, 2008
• AIA Contracts, Lorman Education Services, Salem, Oregon, 2007
• Tribal Natural Resource Trustees Under CERCLA, coauthor, Natural Resources & Environmental Law on the Reservation, Tempe, Arizona, 2004
• Agreements with Tribes—An Introduction, Oregon State Bar CLE, Portland, Oregon, 2003
• Panelist, "The Portland Harbor Vision," Northwest Environmental Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2003
• The National Historic Preservation Act, Oregon Attorney General's Office CLE, Salem, Oregon, 2002
• The Role of Tribes Under the National Historic Preservation Act: A Case Study, Natural Resources & Environmental Law on the Reservation, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2002
• "Government-to-Government Agreements with Tribes," Oregon State Bar CLE, Portland, Oregon, 2001
• Due Diligence in Real Estate Transactions: A Case Study, Natural Resources & Environmental Law on the Reservation, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2001
• Comanagement of U.S. Forest Service Lands by the Grand Ronde Tribe, Oregon State Bar, Portland, Oregon, 2000
• National Historic Preservation Act: Tribal Participation in Off-Reservation Federal Decision Making, Environmental Law on the Reservation, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2000
• Case Note: Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma v. Manufacturing Technologies, The Arrow's Edge, Indian Law Section, Oregon State Bar, 1998
• Potshards and Sun Calendars: BLM Management of Cultural Resources on the Colorado Plateau, 18 Public Land & Resources Law Review, 1997

Education

• University of Colorado School of Law, J.D., 1993
• Wesleyan University, B.A., 1988, honors in history

Admissions

• Oregon
• Colorado

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