Biographies
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Lee E. Miller devotes his practice to water law, natural resources, and environmental law. He represents western natural resource users, particularly agricultural and municipal water providers, before state and federal agencies, Congress and state legislatures, and in state and federal courts. Mr. Miller's practice ranges from participating in negotiations on an interstate water compact to handling simple administrative appeals. He has been involved in more than a hundred Colorado water cases, including several Supreme Court appeals that have established much of modern Colorado water law. Mr. Miller is admitted to practice in the States of Colorado and Wyoming. He is an active member of the Colorado, Wyoming, and American Bar Associations, as well as the Colorado Water Congress. In the past, Mr. Miller has served as the chief of the water rights unit in the Colorado Attorney General's Office. In this position, Mr. Miller supervised water rights litigation for Colorado and represented the state on various water policy boards. Mr. Miller also served as staff counsel to U.S. Senator Hank Brown of Colorado. He was counsel to the bipartisan Congressional Western Water Caucus and was a water and power attorney in the U.S. Department of Interior. Before joining Burns, Figa & Will, P.C., Mr. Miller practiced law with Fairfield and Woods, P.C. Mr. Miller is a frequent speaker at water and environmental law seminars, as well as before natural resource users groups, and he has authored several papers on these topics. In 1989 and 1993, he participated in developing a compendium on open meetings and open records acts for all fifty states. Mr. Miller was born in Alliance, Nebraska. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, fishing, cooking, the history, folklore, poetry and music of cowboys, Scottish history, and Gaelic music. Please feel free to email Lee, or to return to the Biographies index. |
