Attorney Profiles
Alysa Keller Conway Reno, Nevada
Alysa Keller Conway is a member of the firm's Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources department, where she practices primarily in the areas of water law and environmental law. In addition to her law degree, Ms. Conway has a master's degree in geological and environmental science from Stanford University. Prior to practicing law, Ms. Conway worked in the field of environmental consulting and engineering, performing environmental site assessments, remediation and governmental permitting. Her law practice includes governmental permitting and licensing of water projects and due diligence analysis of water rights and environmental issues. Before joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, Ms. Conway was a member of the firm Marshall Hill Cassas & de Lipkau.
Related Activities and Skills:
- Appointed Member, Air Pollution Control Hearing Board, Washoe County District Board of Health
- Adjunct Professor, Environmental Law, Sierra Nevada College, 2005-2006
- Member, Washoe County Bar Association
- Member, State Bar of Nevada
- Member, State Bar of California
- Member, American Bar Association, Environment, Energy and Resources Section
Upcoming Seminars/Presentations
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Environmental Assessments and Findings of No Significant Impact; Evolution of Regulatory Requirements and Recent Developments in the Law; Legal and Practical Implications, Presenter, NEPA Climate Change, Cumulative Impacts and Compliance Conference, CLE International, December 10 11, 2009, Portland, OR.
- Climate Law
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act/Wetlands
- Environmental Management
- Environmental Permitting & Compliance
- Natural Resources & Mining Litigation
- Natural Resources & Water
- Project Permitting
- Water Rights & Water Districts
- U.S. District Court District of Nevada, 2001
- Nevada, 2001
- California, 2006
- University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, California,
2001
J.D. Honors: Cum Laude
- Stanford University,
1995
M.S. Major: Geological and Environmental Science
- San Diego State University,
1990
B.S. Honors: with distinction Major: Geological Sciences
- Two Questions to Address Before Buying Distressed Properties, Business Law Guide, Northern Nevada Business Weekly, September 2009
- What Are the Legal Services You Never, Ever Should Cut? How Come? (co-author), Northern Nevada Business Weekly, September 2009
- Ski Industry Response to Global Warming, (co-author), ABA Natural Resources & Environment, Summer, 2007
- Paleoclimatologic Analysis of a Late Jurassic Petrified Forest, Southeastern Mongolia, PALAIOS; June 1997; v. 12; no. 3; p. 282-291, 1997
- An evaluation of Permian terrestrial deposits as potential hydrocarbon source rocks, southern Mongolia (co-author), American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 79, 1998
- Environmental Issues Contaminated Property Transactions,, Presenter, Advanced Issues in Real Estate Law Seminar, NBI, September 22, 2009, Reno, NV.
- Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Findings of No Significant Impacts (FONSIs), Recent Developments in the Law, Presenter, NEPA Conference, CLE International, February 23, 2009, San Diego, CA
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