Lori Potter

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Treasurer

Denver, CO

Ms. Potter has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of environmental, public lands, land use, and water law. She has extensive experience with §404 permitting, endangered species, NEPA, FLPMA and transportation law issues and local land use regulation. Her practice involves both litigation and counseling. She has practiced in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies across the country. Her practice also includes advice and litigation in the areas of access to information under open records and open meetings laws, administrative law and the public involvement process. Her clients include governmental and quasi-governmental entities, businesses, ranches, citizens' organizations and individuals.

Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Potter served as Regional Director of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund's Rocky Mountain Office, handling and supervising high-profile environmental litigation throughout the western states. She was a Fulbright Professor of environmental law in India in 1993 and has taught at the University of Denver College of Law.

Ms. Potter's recent practice has involved representation of local governments adopting 1041 regulations; negotiation of a complex settlement agreement with the U.S. Forest Service on behalf of environmental organizations, allowing forest thinning in sensitive areas and setting aside other land for designation as protected wilderness; and enforcement of one of Colorado's largest conservation easements on behalf of the donor, a working ranch.