Experience

Jerry Fish is a member of the firm concentrating his practice in natural resources law, with an emphasis on matters relating to oil and gas exploration and storage, hydroelectric project relicensing and compliance, and mining for gold, silver, copper, coal and industrial minerals.

Representative Work

• Four transactions to buy or sell major underground natural gas storage facilities in Alberta and Texas.
• Leasing, permitting and development of an underground natural gas storage facility in Oregon.
• Acquisition and disposition of oil and gas fields in Alberta, Oregon, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and negotiation of gas sales agreements and gas gathering agreements relating to those fields.
• Negotiation and drafting of multiparty relicensing agreements for major hydroelectric projects in each of Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
• Negotiation of numerous long term coal contracts from coal mines in Montana and Wyoming, and other states, many for delivery of more than one million tons of coal per year.
• Negotiation of joint ventures, exploration agreements, acquisitions and dispositions of major gold and silver mines, and settling royalty disputes with respect to those mines.
• Title opinions for oil and gas, gold and silver properties.
• Obtaining permits for various oil and gas and mining projects.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Listed in Best Lawyers in America, for over 20 years
• Member, American Bar Association, Natural Resources Section
• Member, Alaska Bar Association
• Member, Oregon State Bar Association
• Member, Missouri Bar Association
• Member, Northwest Mining Association, Northwest Petroleum Association
• Member, Washington Bar Association
• Member, Northwest Hydroelectric Association

Publications

• J. Fish and T. Wood., "Geologic Carbon Sequestration: Property Rights," 54 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. Ch 3, 2008
• J. Fish and R. Nelson, Jr., "Building Your Own Underground Gas Storage Project: From Leasing to Open Season Under FERC Order No. 636," 39 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. Ch 19, 1993
• "Legal Aspects of Underground Storage Operations in the State of Washington, NW Petroleum Assoc. 1991 Annual Symposium, Bellingham, Wash.
• "Recent Developments in State and Local Regulation of Mineral Development," NW Mining Assoc. Convention, Spokane, Wash., Dec. 1986
• "Oregon's New Dormant-Mineral Statute," 47 Oregon Geology 78, 1985
• "Rights in Minerals and Gravel," (coauthor), 2 Real Property § 40, Oregon CLE Supp., 1985
• "Regulation of Hardrock and Other Mineral Activity on National Forest Land," Public Land Management: The Forest Service, U. Wash. CLE, 1984
• "Local Government Restrictions and Controls on Rights-of-Way," Rights of Access and Surface Use, Paper No. 5, Rocky Mt Min L Fdn, 1984
• "Access Across Private Lands," American Law of Mining § 100, 2d ed, 1984
• "Commonwealth Edison v. Montana: Leading the Severance Tax Stampede," 12 Envtl L 1031, 1982
• "Preservation and Strategic Mineral Development in Alaska: Congress Writes a New Equation," 12 Envtl L 137, 1981

Education

• Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, J.D., 1982, magna cum laude, first in class
  Certificate in environmental and natural resources law
  Associate editor, Environmental Law, 1981-1982
  Bernard F. O'Rourke Award for best student paper on a natural resource topic
  Cornelius Honor Society
  Distinguished Environmental Law Graduate Award
• University of Chicago, MAT, 1974
• A.B., geology, Princeton University, 1971

Admissions

• Alaska
• Oregon
• Missouri
• Washington

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Law Practice

Jerry Fish is Chair of the firm's Hydroelectric Projects practice team. He concentrates his practice in energy and natural resources law, with an emphasis on negotiating multi-party hydroelectric project settlement agreements, gold and silver, coal, and oil and gas matters including mineral sales agreements, title opinions, leases, joint venture agreements, acquisitions, and permitting for mineral operations.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Board member, Northwest Hydroelectric Association
• Member, National Hydropower Association
• Member, American Bar Association, Natural Resources Section
• Member, Oregon State Bar Association
• Member, Missouri Bar Association
• Member, Northwest Mining Association, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME, Northwest Petroleum Association
• Member, Washington Bar Association
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, for the past ten years

Articles

• Co-author, "Rights in Minerals and Gravel," 2 Real Property § 40 (Oregon CLE Supp 1985)
• Author, "Preservation and Strategic Mineral Development in Alaska: Congress Writes a New Equation," 12 Envtl L 137, 1981
• "Commonwealth Edison v. Montana: Leading the Severance Tax Stampede," 12 Envtl L 1031, 1982
• "Regulation of Hardrock and Other Mineral Activity on National Forest Land," Public Land Management: The Forest Service (U. Wash. CLE 1984)
• "Local Government Restrictions and Controls on Rights-of-Way," Rights of Access and Surface Use, Paper No. 5 (Rocky Mt Min L Fdn 1984)
• "Access Across Private Lands," American Law of Mining § 100 (2d ed 1984)
• "Oregon's New Dormant-Mineral Statute," 47 Oregon Geology 78, 1985
• "Recent Developments in State and Local Regulation of Mineral Development" (NW Mining Assoc. Convention, Spokane, Wash., Dec. 1986)
• Oregon and Washington reporter, Mineral Law Newsletter, Rocky Mtn Min L Fdn
• "Legal Aspects of Underground Storage Operations in the State of Washington (NW Petroleum Assoc. 1991 Annual Symposium, Bellingham, Wash.)
• J. Fish and R. Nelson, Jr., Building Your Own Underground Gas Storage Project: From Leasing to Open Season Under FERC Order No. 636," 39 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. Ch 19, 1993

Jurisdictions

• Oregon
• Washington
• Missouri

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