Parr Brown Expands Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Team
Parr Brown Gee & Loveless (www.parrbrown.com) today announced that Matthew E. Jensen has joined the commercial law firm as a shareholder. He will continue to focus his efforts on mining, water, oil and gas, geothermal and other natural resource matters.
“Matt has unique experience and expertise in mining, water and environmental law, which are areas that have grown steadily within our firm,” said Dan Jensen, shareholder at Parr Brown. “Like several attorneys at Parr Brown, he has a practical background in geology and engineering that is very helpful to our clients when addressing complex and technical legal issues, which seem to crop up frequently in natural resource matters. Matt will serve an important role in the expansion of Parr Brown’s natural resources practice, both locally and regionally.” Prior to joining Parr Brown, Jensen practiced natural resources law as a partner at another Salt Lake City firm. Throughout his career, Jensen has been involved in a wide range of natural resource transactions, administrative proceedings, litigation, appeals, and legislative lobbying. He has significant experience with water rights, mineral title, mining permits, geothermal energy issues, oil and gas development, stream alteration, section 404 wetland permits, and other areas. Licensed in both Utah and Nevada, Jensen has represented municipalities, private water companies, developers, and large farming operations in conducting comprehensive water rights analyses and due diligence. Jensen also serves within such organizations as the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and the Utah State Bar. Jensen is a frequent speaker on natural resources topics and has been recognized as a rising star by Mountain States Super Lawyers and in Utah Business magazine’s Legal Elite. Jensen graduated from the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Order of the Coif, in 2005. While in law school he served as a Note and Comment Editor for the University of Utah Law Review. That same year he received a Graduate Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law after earning a B.S. in Mining Engineering from the University of Utah, cum laude, in 2002. Prior to law school, Jensen worked at Monsanto’s Enoch Valley Phosphate Mine, Bridger Coal Mine, and the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining (DOGM). He also worked with the University of Utah’s Seismograph Stations studying mining-induced seismicity and as an attorney law clerk to the Honorable Justice Matthew B. Durrant of the Utah Supreme Court.
