Richard R. Hall
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ExperienceRichard Hall's practice focuses on real estate, natural resources and energy law. He regularly represents clients in matters relating to land and energy development, mining, water rights, and public lands law.
Richard's real estate experience includes the purchase, sale and leasing of properties for residential, commercial, industrial and energy development. This real estate work includes the transaction due diligence, including title and permitting review, as well as the acquisition of land use entitlements.
Richard assists clients with natural resource and energy development, including both conventional and renewable energy projects. His past experience as a civil engineer for an electrical utility allows him to combine his legal experience with a technical understanding of resource and energy development projects. He represents mining and energy clients in structuring and negotiating land acquisition and lease agreements, as well as permitting projects on public and private lands. Richard assists in the attainment of land use entitlements and project compliance with federal, state and local regulations. He also regularly handles water rights matters in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana.
Richard represents clients before various federal, state and local regulatory, land use and resource management agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and various state environmental quality, state trust lands and water rights agencies, as well as public utility commissions.
He also has extensive experience in land title matters. In addition to general title review conducted in conjunction with real estate acquisitions, Richard's experience includes the preparation of numerous mineral title opinions for mining and oil/gas operators in several states.
Prior Work Experience
- Civil Engineer, Seattle City Light, Generation Division, 1999-2000
- Summer Clerk, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Washington, D.C., 2002
Representative WorkRepresentative Real Estate/Land Use
- Represents clients in both the acquisition and sale of residential, commercial and industrial properties.
- Represents an industrial client in the negotiation of land and water rights acquisition, joint venture agreements, and the obtaining of local and federal land use permits in connection with the development and construction of a new industrial facility.
- Lead real estate counsel in two separate transactions involving the sale of operating casinos.
- Represents a major building materials and concrete supplier in numerous real estate leasing and acquisition transactions, including mining properties and water rights.
- Represents two separate regional medical centers in the acquisition, development, permitting and leasing of several medical and office facilities.
- Represents several resort developers in various aspects of the property acquisition, permitting and development process.
Representative Mining, Natural Resource and Public Lands Work
- Represented several mine operators in the sale or acquisition of operating mines.
- Authored numerous mineral title opinions for coal, oil, gas, limestone, geothermal and oil sands interests on public, private and tribal lands in Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
- Represents numerous clients in water rights matters in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada and Montana.
- Drafted permit applications and coordinated the application process for Bureau of Land Management right-of-way grants.
- Represents numerous residential, commercial and industrial developers in water rights matters in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, including the water right appropriation, transfer and change application processes.
- Represents clients in water rights adjudications before the Idaho Water Court and Montana Water Court (pro hac vice).
Representative Conventional Energy and Renewable Energy Work
- Represented a large electrical utility in two separate proceedings before the Utah Utility Facility Review Board.
- Represents electrical and gas utilities before state regulatory commissions.
- Represents wind, solar, biomass and biofuels developers in the acquisition and lease of real estate for project development.
- Represented an in-situ coal gasification developer in the acquisition of over 150 mineral leases in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.
Professional Honors & Activities
- Chair, Environmental and Natural Resources Section, Idaho State Bar, 2009-present
- Past Chair, Mining Law Section, Utah State Bar, 2007-2008
- Board of Directors, Idaho Botanical Gardens
- Board of Directors, J. Reuben Clark Law Society
- Member, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
- Member, Idaho State Bar Association
- Member, Utah State Bar Association
- Member, Wyoming Bar Association
Presentations
- "The General Mining Law of 1872 – Past, Present and Future," Idaho State Bar, Environmental and Natural Resources Section, Feb. 26, 2011
- "Easements and Water Delivery," 27th Annual Idaho Water Law and Resource Issues Seminar, Boise, Idaho, Nov. 2010
- "Owners and Developers Tips & Traps," Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, Apr. 2010
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"Utah Mining Law Update – 2007," Utah State Bar Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Section's Annual Meeting, Jan. 2008
Publications
Education
- University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 2003
Member, Chicago Journal of International Law, 2001-03
- Brigham Young University B.S. Civil Engineering, 1999
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ExperienceRichard Hall's practice focuses on mining, natural resources and public lands law. He represents clients in operational and regulatory matters relating to the acquisition, due diligence, title review, permitting and maintenance of mineral, surface and access rights required to support mining, energy and industrial projects. His past experience as a civil engineer for a large electrical utility allows him to combine his legal experience with a technical understanding of resource and energy development projects.
Richard represents clients in the hardrock, coal and industrial mineral industries. In the course of his practice, Richard has assisted mining and energy clients in structuring and negotiating land acquisition and lease agreements, as well as permitting projects on public, private and tribal lands. He has considerable experience with public land law issues relating to the location, maintenance and title review of mining and millsite claims under the Federal Mining Law of 1872. He also regularly handles water rights matters in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana.
Richard represents clients before various federal, state and local regulatory, land use and resource management agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and various state environmental quality, state trust lands and water rights agencies.
He also has extensive experience in land and mineral title matters. In addition to general title reviews conducted in conjunction with land acquisitions, Richard's experience includes the preparation of numerous mineral title opinions for mining and oil/gas operators in several states.
Prior Work Experience
- Civil Engineer, Seattle City Light, Generation Division, 1999-2000
- Summer Clerk, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Washington, D.C., 2002
Representative Work
- Represents clients on ongoing operational and regulatory matters relating to the operation of hardrock, coal and industrial mineral mining projects.
- Represented numerous clients in working with the BLM in obtaining and maintaining various property interests in federal lands, including mineral leases and mining claims.
- Assisted several mine operators in the sale or acquisition of operating mines and mining properties.
- Authored numerous mineral title opinions for coal, oil, gas, limestone, geothermal and oil sands interests on public, private and tribal lands in Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
- Drafted permit applications and coordinated the application process for BLM right-of-way grants.
- Represented a major building materials and concrete supplier in numerous real estate leasing and acquisition transactions, including mining properties and water rights.
- Assisted an in-situ coal gasification developer in the acquisition of over 150 mineral leases in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.
- Represents numerous mining, energy and industrial developers in water rights matters in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, including the water right appropriation, transfer and change application processes.
- Assists clients in water rights adjudications before the Idaho Water Court and Montana Water Court (pro hac vice).
- Represents an industrial client in the negotiation of land and water rights acquisition, joint venture agreements, and the obtaining of local and federal land use permits in connection with the development and construction of a large industrial facility.
- Assisted in the representation a large electrical utility in two separate proceedings before the Utah Utility Facility Review Board.
- Represents electrical and gas utilities before state regulatory commissions.
- Represents wind, geothermal, biomass and biofuels developers in the acquisition and lease of real estate for project development.
Professional Honors & Activities
- Subcommittee Member (Energy Development, Land Exchange and Permit Renewal/Litigation Subcommittees), Bureau of Land Management Resource Advisory Council, Boise (Idaho) District, Mar. 2011-present
- Past Chair, Environmental and Natural Resources Section, Idaho State Bar, 2009-2011
- Past Chair, Mining Law Section, Utah State Bar, 2007-2008
- Member, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
- Member, Idaho State Bar Association
- Member, Utah State Bar Association
- Member, Wyoming Bar Association
- Board of Directors, Idaho Botanical Gardens
- Board of Directors, J. Reuben Clark Law Society
Presentations
- "The General Mining Law of 1872 – Past, Present and Future," Idaho State Bar, Environmental and Natural Resources Section, Feb. 26, 2011
- "Geothermal Development," Center for Advanced Energy Studies ("CAES") Geothermal Energy Workshop, Idaho Falls, Idaho, April 21, 2011
- "Easements and Water Delivery," 27th Annual Idaho Water Law and Resource Issues Seminar, Boise, Idaho, Nov. 2010
- "Owners and Developers Tips & Traps," Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, Apr. 2010
- "Utah Mining Law Update – 2007," Utah State Bar Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Section's Annual Meeting, Jan. 2008
Articles
- "Real Estate Issues," coauthor, The Law of Biomass, Stoel Rives LLP, 2010
- "Coal: Like It or Not, It's Here to Stay," The Enterprise newspaper, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2007
- "Legal Issues in Solution and In-Situ Mining," coauthor, 52 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 17-1, 2006
- "The Energy Policy Act of 2005," coauthor, Connect magazine, July 2006
Education
- University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 2003
Member, Chicago Journal of International Law, 2001-2003
- Brigham Young University, B.S., Civil Engineering, 1999
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