Overview

Connor McRobert is an environmental, land use, and natural resources attorney who supports clients on environmental permitting and compliance, land use and energy development, and real estate transactions. He helps clients evaluate environmental liabilities, conduct due diligence, and address transaction closing requirements. His experience spans the energy, natural resources, agribusiness, and transportation sectors.

Before joining Stoel Rives, Connor supported in-house counsel at the Port of Portland, working on environmental compliance and regulatory matters across its aviation, marine, and industrial business lines.

While at Lewis & Clark Law School, Connor served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Law Review and was inducted into the Cornelius Honor Society. He also worked at the Small Business Legal Clinic and served as a land use research assistant to Professor Ed Sullivan. Connor received his B.A. in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College. In college, he served as a policy analyst at the Institute of Politics, focusing on environmental, economic, and criminal justice policy.

Before entering the legal profession, Connor worked as a strategy and business ventures analyst at Bank of America.

Education

Lewis & Clark Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2026; Cornelius Honor Society; Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Law Review; CALI Excellence for the Future Awards, Top Student in Land Use Planning and Legal Research: Administrative Law, 2024; Research Assistant to Professor Ed Sullivan; Small Business Legal Clinic

Harvard College, B.A., Environmental Science and Public Policy, High Honors, 2021

Admissions

Oregon

Experience

Environmental, Land Use, and Regulatory Matters

  • Analyzed permitting and shoreline management requirements for proposed solar and electrical transmission projects.
  • Researched rezoning, vesting, and detrimental reliance issues affecting proposed energy development.
  • Evaluated environmental cleanup obligations and liability protections, including issues involving prospective purchaser agreements and consent decrees.
  • Supported complex permitting matters and air permitting enforcement proceedings through legal research and analysis.
  • Researched compliance questions involving RCRA, NEPA, and Oregon DEQ requirements.

Transactions

  • Conducted title and due diligence review for agribusiness real estate transactions.
  • Performed permitting due diligence for a proposed solar energy project.
  • Prepare purchase and sale agreement disclosure schedules based on contractual representations, due diligence findings, and title review.
  • Prepared a closing agenda and supported the preparation of transaction closing documents.
  • Analyzed the implications of an environmental consent decree for a transit agency’s prospective property acquisition.
  • Researched responsibility for noxious weed control under a utility easement.
  • Drafted and revised contracts and form agreements for energy and agribusiness matters.

Insights

Insights & Presentations

  • “Tribal Co-Management at the State Level: The Oregon Experience,” 57 Environmental Law ___ (forthcoming 2027), with Michael C. Blumm.

Affiliations

Civic

  • President, Harvard Club of Oregon and Southwest Washington, 2026–present
  • Events Chair, Harvard Club of Oregon and Southwest Washington, 2024–2026

Industries

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