Attorney Profiles

Lisa Kirschner is a shareholder and a member of the Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources department. Her practice centers on environmental matters, with a focus on compliance with local, state and federal water quality laws and regulations. She has teamed with clients to obtain, comply with and defend permits involving all aspects of water quality regulation, including surface and groundwater discharge, underground injection, municipal water supply and treatment, and wetlands. She has negotiated favorable settlement agreements on behalf of clients faced with water quality enforcement actions at both the state and federal level. Ms. Kirschner also monitors the constantly evolving maze of state and federal water quality regulations, and helps clients shape those regulations by drafting and submitting comments on their behalf. She recently drafted briefs supporting a petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court on a significant water quality permitting issue.

Ms. Kirschner writes and speaks extensively on water quality-related topics. She was a member of the University of Denver Law Review , and was a Joe Rudd Scholar and finalist in the 1989 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation's Natural Resource Writing Competition.

Related Activities and Skills:

• Utah State Bar - Chair of the Natural Resource and Environmental Law Section (2005-2006)
• American Bar Association - Natural Resources and Environmental Law Sections; Editor of the Natural Resources & Environment Journal

Published Works

• Clean Water Act Programs of the Next Millennium-Predicting the Flow of Things to Come, July 22, 1999 by Lisa A. Kirschner
• Mining and the Vanishing Surety Bond Market, October 22, 2003 by Lisa A. Kirschner
• Clean Water Act Miccosukee Decision Issued Today By U.S. Supreme Court, March 23, 2004 by Lisa A. Kirschner
• Targeting Runoff: Storm Water Permitting And Enforcement, November 2004 by Lisa A. Kirschner
• Groundwater and the CWA, How Far Will The Ninth Circuit Go?, Spring 2005 by Lisa A. Kirschner
• The Songhua River Spill: China's Pollution Crisis, Spring 2006, by Lisa A. Kirschner
• What's Up with Water, Air and Post-Aviall Jurisprudence?, Summer 2006 by Lisa A. Kirschner, David W. Tundermann and Richard J. Angell
• Ski Industry Response to Global Warming, 2007 by Lisa A. Kirschner and Alysa M. Keller