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October 20, 2010 (Denver, CO)
Attorneys Scott Turner and Jeffrey Flege join the Energy and Natural Resources firm of Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley P.C.
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September 27, 2010 (Denver, CO)
On October 13, 2010 Mayor Hickenlooper, Governor Ritter, Councilwoman Jeanne Robb, and Deputy Mayor Guillermo (Bill) Vidal will dedicate the main plaza at the new Denver Justice Center as The Dale Tooley Plaza, named after Denver's District Attorney who served from 1973 to 1983. Dale Tooley's three sons all well respected Denver attorneys will be present at the ceremony to honor their father and the example he set for his family and the legal profession in Denver.

September 22, 2010 (Denver, CO)
Attorneys Darcy Levy and Nora Pincus join the Energy and Natural Resources firm of Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley P.C..

September 28, 2010 (Denver, CO)
Rebecca Watson, an attorney at Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley and former Assistant Secretary for Lands and Minerals Management of the U.S. Department of the Interior, has been named the A.T. Smith/Gerald J. Schissler Distinguished Natural Resources Practitioner-in-Residence at the Sturm College of Law of the University of Denver. Ms. Watson will teach and direct a semester-long program focused on the practical side of natural resources law.

Former U.S. Interior Department Official Joins Firm
Rebecca C. Watson, former Assistant Secretary for Lands and Minerals Management of the U.S. Department of the Interior, has joined the Firm as a partner. Ms. Watson has more than 30 years of legal and policy experience in the fields of conventional and renewable energy, natural resources (grazing, mining and timber) and federal environmental law. As Assistant Secretary of the Interior Department she had oversight of three organizations: the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the Office of Surface Mining (OSM), which together have the responsibility for management of federal energy resources. In that role, she led 12,000 employees and managed a $1 billion budget. Ms. Watson was honored by the Boone and Crockett Club, the oldest U.S. organization dedicated to the conservation of wildlife, for her work in conservation while at the Department of the Interior. Prior to her service in the Interior Department, M. Watson served as the Assistant General Counsel for Energy Policy at the U. S. Department of Energy in the George H. W. Bush administration.
Ms. Watson focuses her practice on public land access and energy development for solar, wind, geothermal, wood biomass, and oil and gas with an emphasis on federal environmental law. She represented the first solar project on federal lands, advised wind energy developers on mineral rights and advised clients on the Geothermal Steam Act of 2005.
Ms. Watson was most recently a natural resources partner at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells). She has also been a partner and counsel in two Washington D.C. law firms and served as Managing Partner for a firm in Helena, Montana. She is a frequent speaker and author on topics of natural resources, federal environmental law, energy policy and renewable energy. She is a member of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and the National Petroleum Council. She serves on the boards of the Independent Petroleum Association of the Mountain States (IPAMS), Jefferson County Open Space Commission, Center of the American West at the University of Colorado and the Public Land Policy Institute at the University Of Montana School Of Law.
Rebecca Watson received her J.D. from the University of Denver Law School, as well as a M.A. and B.A. from the University of Denver. She is admitted to practice in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and the District of Columbia.

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