Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley’s litigation practice specializes in complex civil and criminal trials and appeals, with particular emphasis on:
- Commercial litigation
- Contract and real property disputes
- Litigation involving oil and gas
- Water and mineral rights
- Healthcare and insurance matters
- Securities - Shareholder litigation, broker-dealer and investment advisor matters
- Environmental regulation
- Eminent domain
- Inverse condemnation and takings actions
- Land use disputes
- Employment claims
- Claims based on fraud, misrepresentation and business torts
- White collar civil and criminal defense
- Class actions
Firm attorneys have practiced before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the United States Court of Claims, the Colorado Supreme Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Kansas, New Mexico, Alaska, Arizona, California, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington, and various other federal and state trial courts, agencies, and commissions.
We represent our clients in all aspects of arbitration, dispute resolution, and mediation.
Highlights:
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Keith Tooley was co-counsel for a client who successfully prevailed in the leading Colorado Supreme Court case establishing the legal principle that oil and gas are included in a deed reservation of "other minerals".
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Brian Tooley, Steve Bain, and Kathryn Haight recently settled a Colorado class action lawsuit against the firm’s client for alleged underpaid royalties. The over $10 million exposure was settled prior to class certification, through mediation, for payment of approximately $2.5 million and an agreed-upon settlement class.
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Keith Tooley obtained a constructive trust for the Firm’s client over more than 200 sections of land in north central Montana, plus damages, after a lengthy trial to the court.
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Brian Tooley and Steve Bain recently settled litigation in Wyoming on behalf of an operator involving a drilling contractor’s negligent destruction of a wellbore, and successfully settled a claim against the drilling contractor stemming from a stuck drilling pipe after losing mud circulation.
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Brian Tooley obtained a partial summary judgment on the central issue in a complicated title and payout dispute involving substantial acreage in the San Juan Basin in Colorado, resulting in the successful settlement of the action.
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Brian Tooley obtained a preliminary injunction to enjoin surface owners from interfering with access and use of the surface in federal units in the Raton Basin, Colorado.
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